Thanks in advance for anyone who decides to read this (it might be a bit lengthy)
all right…
Explanation of what I am tryint to accomplish:
I have a Movie that I am turing into a portfolio to showcase different types of work. I have buttons that take you to subpages from the main page. Each subpage has Links created via createEmptyMovieClip which are filled w/ thumbnails depending on what subpage you go to. The paths to all files and text descriptions for my projects are XML driven. The page parses the XML and returns variables for each particular attribute of a project. IE title, thumbnail path, file path, project information, for each project parsed from the XML. It stores each piece of data for each thumbnail in arrays depending on the type of data, fileArray, titleArray, pathArray, thumbArray…
what is supposed to happen is, when you click on one of the thumbnails, the loadMovie method is supposed to load an external swf, designated by the XML that was pushed() into the array into a Holder MC.
Here is the weird thing, I will tyr to explain ti best I can. The external swf, gets loaded into the holder mc, but it doesnt show anything except text. It does not show any jps, or gifs that we in the file or other vector stuff.
I tried loadMovieNum and I also tried just loading the path directly instead of using the XML dynamically -
holder_mc.loadMovie(portfolio_examples/flash/external.swf) this does the same thing.
Just for the heck of it I created a circle and trunted it into an MC on the root and used the load movie with the direct path like above and it loaded the movie into the main screen, but that is not how I spent the past 3 weeks coding this portfolio to work…
Any ideas on why stuff isnt showing up correctly in the externally loaded swfs?
go to the flash projects and experiments section and click on the first thumbnail.
this is what it should look like.
originally I tried to load this into the below into the holder MC and then I figured out that I cant see anything except text…
so I took the other swf( grid_face) and linked it to the HTML via Javascript so I could open the grid in a different window. Still cant see anything except text in my loaded external swfs…
Hope this can help someone figure this out with me.
http://orion.terra.edu/oriona68/brianPinkney.zip
link to a zip containing the fla, xml file, and two subdirectories which contain swfs to be loaded into the main movie. the two zip files inside of the main zip file need to be unzipped into folders with the exact same names as the zip files , minus the .zip of course. and put in the same folder as the zml and flas to make the movie work.
I hope someone can take a look at this and try to help me figure this out.
I have been working my butt off on this for the past 3 weeks. My code isnt “pretty”, but I can usually figure things out by using the great resources provided here and on the web. Unfortunately, I am more of a designer learning to code as I go, and in this case I can’t “go” any further since I am not very versed in coding.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
Dutch
