# LoadMovie with dynamic text in Parent Movie. Please HELP! **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [May 16, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-with-dynamic-text-in-parent-movie-please-help/21084 "2003-05-16T20:00:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Manare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@Manare](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Manare)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-with-dynamic-text-in-parent-movie-please-help/21084/1 "2003-05-16T20:00:56Z")
Hi. (I previously posted this thread in Flash MX Forum but I think it should be here instead. Sorry) Funny behaviour…I’m trying to load an external MC containing dynamic text (MC-Clip.swf) to a MC empty holder (MCimport) within my main/parent movie. This piece of AS is attached to a button (to call the dyn. txt clip): > on (release) { **\_root.loadMovie** (“MC-Clip.swf”, “MCimport”); } With this, the dynamic text gets loaded indeed… but Fullscreen into the parent movie, and not into MCimport (where it should be). Now… I don’t understand why, but the thing is that if MC-Clip.swf contains just static text (and change accordingly the text properties to static text in the holder MC), it gets loaded in the right place (MCimport) within the main/parent movie. (!!!) And this is the piece of AS attached to the button (to call the MC containing the static txt): > on (release) { **loadMovie** (“MC-Clip.swf”, “MCimport”); } In order to get loaded the dynamic text into the target MC inside the parent movie, I’ve tried many different combinations (some of them even absurd I think)…the result? same behaviour or even worse. Some of them are: // loadMovie(“MC-Clip.swf”,\_root); // \_level0.loadMovie(“MC-Clip.swf”, MCimport); // this.loadMovie (“MC-Clip.swf”, “MCimport”); // loadMovie (“MC-Clip.swf”, this); // \_root.MCimport.loadMovie(“MC-Clip.swf”,this); // clip=“Mcimport”; // loadMovie(“MC-Clip.swf”, this.clip); or // loadMovie(“MC-Clip.swf”,\_root.clip); or // loadMovie(“MC-Clip.swf”,\_parent.clip); Is it strange indeed or am I doing something wrong? Can somebody help me please?? I’m going mad with this silly thing and I’ve run out of ideas!! If anybody wants to have a look at it all, here’s the zipped fla (12Kb): [Load Movie Fla](http://www.iespana.es/Manete/Loading_Dynamic_txt.zip) (Unzip all files to a folder and double click on **Loading Dyn TXT.swf** to start the party…). Thank you! Manare ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-with-dynamic-text-in-parent-movie-please-help/21084/2 "2003-05-16T21:12:49Z")
🙂 tried almost all possible combinations, just not the right one, lol if you have mc\_clipname.loadMovie(otherMovie, whatever); the content will load into mc\_clipname! (as in “\_root.loadMovie (“MC-Clip.swf”, “MCimport”);” =\> loads into \_root) so the 2nd one was correct: loadMovie (“MC-Clip.swf”, “MCimport”); and should work with dynamic and static text, the path to the dynamic textfield is then \_root.MCimport.textfieldName.text … so you have // loadMovie(“MC-Clip.swf”,\_root); =\>loads into \_root // \_level0.loadMovie(“MC-Clip.swf”, MCimport); loads into \_level0 // this.loadMovie (“MC-Clip.swf”, “MCimport”); this, called from \_root, is \_root again // loadMovie (“MC-Clip.swf”, this); same here, this = \_root // \_root.MCimport.loadMovie(“MC-Clip.swf”,this); yup… ah, paths… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-with-dynamic-text-in-parent-movie-please-help/21084/3 "2003-05-16T22:04:02Z")
Pffff…I get the general idea of what you say, but I’m too thick as I still can’t make it work… Any other hint?? 😉 Thanks, Manare ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-with-dynamic-text-in-parent-movie-please-help/21084/4 "2003-05-17T01:10:15Z")
I really don’t get it… :block: The MC holder (named _MCimport_ in my fla) is the empty target MC which will hold the dynamic or the static text. You say it should load whatever type of text when using: \*\*loadMovie (“MC-Clip.swf”, “MCimport”); \*\* but it only works when static text is used in MC-Clip.swf. After trying different combinations I found out that by adding \_root.\*\*loadMovie (“MC-Clip.swf”, “MCimport”); \*\* the target MC-Clip.swf was loaded…but not into destination MCimport but in fullscreen and overlapping the main movie. (!!!) …I really can’t understand why it is not loaded where I tell Flash to load it… I’ll wait for more suggestions…the more I think about it the least I understand it… Thanks! Manare ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadmovie-with-dynamic-text-in-parent-movie-please-help/21084/5 "2003-05-18T14:00:08Z")
THIS IS AMAZING GUYS!!! …I’ve been able to see that it was a problem of Windows FLASH PLAYER!!!.. I normally work with Flash 5 but I also had a demo version of FlashMX coexisting in the same computer. For any strange reason default player in my Windows XP was _Flash Player 5 r30_. After reinstalling the Flash MX demo, the player is now _Version 6 r23_…and now it works… …and the most amazing thing (GOD give me patience…but NOW! ) is that if it wasn’t for that thing on version players, I would have done it well since the beginning -as you can see in my first post above- I firstly wrote: > on (release) { loadMovie(“MC-Clip.swf”, “MCimport”); } and seeing it didn’t work for dynamic text, I started all that mess about adding \_root’s and \_this and \_parent’s and other desperate nonsenses of mine…(as seen in my AS-fla with many // of “non-working” and “already tried” code) OK, nevertheless…now I’m a happy guy! Just watch out everybody with such silly things which can bring you many headaches for details which are in a first instance, out of reach… Specially thanks to eyezberg for the “brainstorming” exercise! 😛 Happy Flashing! Manare