Does anyone have the following fonts they could send to me?
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Perpetua Titling MT
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Poor Richard
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Wide Latin
Thanks.
Perpetua Titling MT…
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/agfa/perpetua/titling-mt/
http://www.identifont.com/show?1NO
Poor Richard…
http://www.fontpool.com/fonts/redrooster/poor_richard_rr.html
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/redrooster/poor-richard-rr/
Wide Latin…
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/castletype/latin-wide-ct/
Google is your friend 
And you may say “Well I have to pay for these I want someone to give them to me for free”, and if so, my response would be “Well that is illegal and we do not support illegal activities such as this on this forum”.
Those fonts are expensive. It wouldn’t be in this delima if my laptop didn’t crash on me. I created my Flash movie with those 3 fonts, now Flash is substituting for it. There must be a Website with these fonts for free. I’m not willing to pay $60.00 for fonts. I doubt anyone on here would either… You feel me?
By the way, lostbeta, did you ever figure out how to call up nested movie clips from an external swf? The AS script you gave me before didn’t work. Soultry gave me another solution but it had problems.
I wouldn’t pay that much for a font either. How did you get the font in the first place? You can try using google to find the font for free off of a freeware font site, but if the font is not freeware, then chances are you will not be able to find it for free legally and you may have to change the font on your site.
And as for that nested movie clips thing, it is all targeting. You can only target a clip in an external movie if the movie is fully loaded and the clip is available for calling on the stage of that clip. I can’t remember what we did in trying to figure it out before, but I know it is possible.
I was playing around with the tellTarget. It works in the same file. But when I tried to call it from a external file, it doesn’t work. I can’t seem to set the connection between loading the movie and tellTarget. If it works within the same file then it should work externally.
Would it be possible if I send you a copy of my fla files? Maybe it could help you recall how to tellTarget a mc externally.
Well if you change the location of the AS, then the path to your clip changes as well. The same script won’t work on a different timeline.
Ahh, I see… So how would I call up the mc at the level of the external swf?
It depends on your set up. If your empty mc that you are loading to is on the main timeline then it would be _root.emptyMC
The window mc is actually in the main timeline of the external swf. However, motion tweens and AS that controls the motion tweens is nested below it. Meaning, you have to double click the movie clip or edit in place to go into the motion tweens and AS.
The first frame of the motion tween is a label called “window1.”
But above that are the AS which stops the play. Therefore, there must be an AS that calls it to play for it to run.
I’m not sure what level is that…
In that external swf, a movie clip holds a button. Edit in place or double click that button with a instance name called “Bstore” brings you to the AS. Just like the window movie clip. In the Button AS, I have
on (release) {
_parent.window.gotoAndPlay (“window1”);
}
So what level would this be if I am calling the window from an external swf? Some people said, it’s _parent._parent.
Targetting is an important thing to learn in Flash, you can’t have people figuring that stuff out for you the whole time you use Flash
And if I am picturing this right, _parent._parent is the correct usage here.
I wouldn’t be asking for help if this was a easy problem to solve. I have tried a variety of ways to resolve this problem but none has worked. I have used tellTarget before, but not through an external file. Soultry couldn’t figure out this problem. With my lack of experience in AS, I doubt could either. But I am still trying…
If you can .zip your files and attach them to the forum or upload them to a server and post the link to download I will take a look.
This is the reason why I came to this forum. People on here are patient and sincere. They are willing to help one another. By learning from others on here, in return, I can contribute the same thing. I can help other people who have problems with their projects. I am actually working on two projects. You have given me inspiration on solving a problem for my other project.
Hey lostinbeta,
you can download the files from:
http://66.92.162.121/macom-f1.fla
You can get a better understanding of what I am trying to accomplish with this nested movie clip by checking out my virtual tour movie.
http://66.92.162.121/index.htm
Click on “Enter.” Then Click on Directory, a textbox scroller with data appears. The data are stored as rows. Each row of data is linked to a external swf with nested movie clips…
lostinbeta, thanks man…
Ok, your problem was… as I stated previously, that you have to wait until the movie is fully loaded the clip is existent on the stage to be able to target it. You were calling the gotoAndPlay at the same moment you were loading the movie, that won’t work.
What I did instead was defined a variable that held which window to play, and from inside the loaded movie I called the gotoAndPlay() using the value of variable. So when the button is pressed it sets _root.whichWindow to “window1” , and in the loaded movie it uses window.gotoAndPlay(_root.whichWindow), which will be “window1” after that button is pressed.
You can check the sources files to see what I mean, I commented the code. Check the main timeline of the main movie, the about button in the main movie, and the last keyframe in the loaded movie.
You can download the .zip file from here…
http://members.lycos.co.uk/lostinbeta/
(please excuse the temp URL, my server is down)
Thanks lostinbeta, I would have never figure that out.
Three things I would like to ask you about the main and loaded movie. How come the after loading the movie, the other things in the movie doesn’t work such as the bouncing ball doesn’t bounce, the arrows with a link doesn’t work. Additionally, I tried changing the variable name to something else. It doesn’t bring up the mc anymore.
You have to change the variable name on the main timeline, the about button, and in the loaded movie. All instances of the variable in your script must match.
The objects in your loaded movie don’t work because you target the _root, and as stated previously, the _root of the loaded movie becomes the _root of the main movie when you load it in, so you need to change that (I believe to _parent, I don’t have the file opened right now, but that sounds right).
Your ball stopped bouncing because I didn’t realize you had that in a tween and I used a stop() action on frame 1. There are two ways you can stop this. Put the tween in its own movie clip symbol so the stop() action doesn’t effect that timeline, or create a trigger variable to set to true or false so that the window panel doesn’t keep looping over and playing repeatedly.
Oh btw: for that ball thing, I recommend just making the tween in it’s own movie clip instead of the AS
Hey lostinbeta,
I have figured it out… _parent doesn’t seem to work. But _root._root works. If _root targets the main timeline of the loaded movie then adding an additional root would target the timeline of the main movie.
I am actually getting a hang of the target and level. I need to work more on my AS. It’s actually not that bad. Learning from others is much more easier than figuring it out myself.
I want to thankyou for helping me out all the way. If it weren’t for you and the rest of the people that supported my problem. I wouldn’t beable to get this far.
By the way, what do you think of my virtual tour? It’s not quite complete yet. I have to draw the rooms for the other floors. But you should get an idea of how the virtual tour works. I think it’s actually an informative tool for potential students of that college.
Its nice so far, I don’t know how you drew all that, I think I woulda killed myself before I could of drew 1/4 of that…lol.
Hey lostinbeta,
I have created a listbox which suppose to call up a external file/mc through each label.
However, I can’t configure out the AS that you provided for me with the listbox script.
Here’s the code:
list.addItem(“MA/COM Hall Floor 1 Mega-Byte Cafe John Wilson Pic/Info.”, “macom-f2.swf”, window);
function launchSite(y){
var x = y.getSelectedItem().data;
_root.bStore = “window1”;
_root.loadMovie(x);
}
list.setChangeHandler(“launchSite”);
How could I set each item to each external movie/mc? The above calls up the external movie clip buy with the same mc. Any ideas?
