NEED HELP: Loading External SWF into Flash Movie

programming flash
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone here could possibly help me out. My dilemna is that I am making a menu system for a website with Flash MX. I am working on my first button in the menu. What I am trying to accomplish is I have made a text effect in an external editor (SWFX) and exported the movie to a SWF. The menu system is being made in Flash MX. Currently, when you click on the button in the main movie, I have successfully been able to make the button text disapear. In place of the button text, the external Flash Effect is suppose to load and appear in its place. I’ve been playing with this all day and I am not sure where else to turn.

So in summary

  1. When the button in the menu is pushed, it disapears
  2. The external SWF text effect should appear in its place and load in the same spot (I’ve been trying to accomplish this by loading it into a movie clip.

I’m at a dead end, so any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. I have zipped the following files and attached them:

menu.swf (main menu system)
spis.swf (first text effect that should load externally in place of the first button in the main menu)
Side Menu Navigation.fla (the main menu system FLA)

Thanks Very Much!!
Bauche25 :slight_smile:

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Ok, theres a couple problems with your actionscript:
The button should be:
on (press) {
}
on (release) {
_root.s1.loadMovie (“spis.swf”);
_root.spis._visible = False;
}
(i renamed the spies effect to s1 [just incase the _ was conflicting with the actionscript)

The second problem was, the spies effect movieclip, was like super over scaled, so i replaced it, I have included this zip of the modified version, all you should haft to do is postion the effect so it appears over the same spot the text appears, unless this is what you wanted

3

That’s great, thanks so much. I think my problem is that I am not very good at action script yet. Any suggestions on books?

Again, I really appreciate it.

Best,
Bauche25 :slight_smile: