Loadmovie question?

1

I have really long product demo that I am doing for my company.

It is way too long to use one swf.

I have a menu at the bottom (that animates)

As I load other swf files into the movie, leaving the header(title) and the menu (footer) at the bottom.

I cannot animate the bottom (footer) menu because it sits on the main.swf.

How do I get around this.
I am trying to stay away from just dragging the menu onto the second.swf, because I do not want a flicker in the demo.–this must look professional.

What do I do?

2

Why can you not animate it? Where are you trying to animate it from?

If its sitting on the main.swf can you not reference it using

_root.menu.item1.play() ??

Regards,

Dravos

3

Will you explain that code—item by item?

So do I put a keyframe in the secondary.swf file using the code
_root.menu.item1.play() ??

then create some type of animation for that menu on the main.swf
----on a frame --after my
stop();
loadMovie(“gallery.swf”, “_root.content”); frame

then will that take me back to my secondary.swf after that animation plays

sort off confused< junior flash here

Jeff

4

if you called _root.menu.item1.play(); then it will play through the frames and carry on with the code afterwards in secondary.swf.

But its all down to how your organising menu etc. I could help more if i could see it but unfortunately i only have flash 5 at work… MX at home…

5

okay, good.

Okay, will you break the code down for me

_root.menu.item1.play();

What is menu, what is item1, what are the parameters.

Thankx

6

errr well _root is the top level
menu would be the whole of the footer in the movie clip
and item would be an option in the menu

if you were trying to do an animation to the whole menu then i guess just

_root.menu.play();