Ok, I feel really dumb, but I have tried a bunch of different stuff to try and fix this, and I keep getting the same results :-\
I have a movie playing. It just loops forever within the scene. I NEED to have a caption hover over the movie. Details about when it shows up and leaves and stuff is under-control for me. My problem is that I cannot seem to get the hovering capture movie to show up ABOVE the other movie that is playing (and also dynamically loading jpgs in case you were interested).
I have tried swapping the depth. Even if the caption movie is smaller than the other movie, it is the only thing that shows up. Without swapping depths, the caption movie seems to play perfectly, with the exception that it is doing everything BEHIND the movie that it should be in FRONT of.
Seems like there should be an easy solution, and I keep not getting it. I hope I made sense. If you need clarification, please ask. Thanks in advance!
Keep in mind that I am loading all the images dynamically, and getting the path to those images from a file, which is external as well.
Therefore, although you’ll see the little blue caption floating around (I have it so when it appears, it stays there just like the ALT property) there normally are images loaded there, and the blue caption is actually not seen because of those images.
I borrowed the caption movie clip from the tutorial here, until I could figure out how to get it working.
Ok, I just tried it. No change. This is really confusing. In case it’s of any use:
I am creating an empty movie clip and then calling (by variable) an image to ‘act’ as a movie. There are actually 2 movie clips like that because I am switching back and forth between them. While the movie clip is on a lower level, it loads a new picture. That way there is a smooth transition possible.
However, when I try to add this caption movie clip, it either forces it behind the movies showing the images, OR it puts the caption movie in front and you cannot see the images from the other movies. It’s so frustrating!!! arg
I have tried using a premade movie clip and creating an empty movie clip and calling the caption movie from an external swf file. Neither one seems to make a difference.
My question is this: How is it that the two images movies are working just fine (i can swap depths and all that fun stuff) but when I try to add another movie clip [the caption] it seems to just get all dumb?
I don’t have flash at work and my ISP is down right now, but, I had a simular problem with manipulating movieClips from the main timeline. They’re always on top and never go away (sounds like this one girl I knew…wait, nevermind… )
anyhow; From the timeline I was making a background of stars. I was told here to put all my actions in a blank movieClip off the screen instead of on the timeline itself, then put that movieClip’s layer at the top or bottom, respectively… I don’t know if you tried that or not, but it might be worth a try.
Both instances must have the same parent movie clip. So when you would load your caption dynamically, it would work. Make an other empty movieclip and load your caption into it. give it a try…
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