Need help pritty bad!

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hay,
i am having some problems linking between movies.

i have completed the tut at tableau that builds a movie with preloader, intro and outro.

i have three buttons on my main timeline, a rectangle(this is a movie clip) that i want to load the MC with the preloader and intro outro.

i want the three buttons on the main timeline to change the content in the loaded MC.

for example:
if you press button 1, it will load the preloader in the rectangelMC then play the intro for content 1.

if you press button2, it loads the preloader then the outro of the movie on the stage(in this case content1) then the intro of content 2

and so on

here is the fla file i am working with, it is a basic outline?

help would be much app

thanks in advance

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Hi,

here is the fla file i am working with, it is a basic outline?

er…I think you forgot to attach your file

SteveD

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here it is hope you can help or know some one who can

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I think this is what your looking for:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/loading.htm

To load movies into target no?

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things i can do:

1)i can load an external swf into a MC. that works fine.

2)i can build a MC that loads a preloader then some content.
this content is a mc containing an intro and outro.
there are buttons on this mc that when pressed play the outro of the movie on stage and then the intro of the new one.

i have followed all the tut at tableau and most of the ones found here.

what i am trying to do is have some buttons on the main time line.
but1
but2
but3
i also want a rectangle area to load movies into.
contentHolderMC
i also want three content swf.
content1.swf
content2.swf
content3.swf
each of these content.swf is loaded into the contentHolderMC and they all have a intro and outro.

ok?

when button 1 is pressed (on the maintimeline) it loads content1.swf into contentHolderMC, but only plays the first 15 frames(intro) then stops.

when button2 is pressed(on the main timeline) it plays the outro of content1.swf then loads content2.swf into the contentHolderMC only playing the intro.

and so on…

i guess i am trying to loadMovie and use the nextMovie, to make sure the movie isnt already loaded and if it isnt then play the intro??

im new at this so thats the best i can explain it.
i guess the fla file didnt help?

it could be that i just need to figure out the paths

eg. button1.onRelease function(){
loadmovie(“name”,“target”)
nextmovie???

thanks in advance

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Hi playtart,
OK, I can see what you are trying to do, I am gonna look at your file a bit later today, but before I do, some questions for you.

Is your intro and outro the same in each movie ?
If you want the outro to play on the existing movie, and then ONLY the intro on the new movie you will have a lag - empty space, whilst the new movie is loading.

However, if I understand you correctly, you want movie1 preloader to play, followed by movie1.intro - yes ?
When user clicks button you want movie1.outro to play, followed by movie2.intro - yes ?

let me know and I will have a look for you OK

SteveD

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Is your intro and outro the same in each movie ?

the intro is frames 2 to 15. coloured rect slides down then some content. 15 to 30 the text and rect slide up. the same for all except for the text.

No lag please?

you want movie1 preloader to play, followed by movie1.intro - yes ?

yes

When user clicks button you want movie1.outro to play, followed by movie2.intro - yes ?

yes

thanks mate.

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ok mate ill come back later for your response

thanks again

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Hi,
See you are from the 'Pool, I live in France so the time diff is about an hour ( it is about 8.30am as I type - you are probably still in the land of nod !)
Given some thought to your situation, what you need to do is:

  1. load in your content.swf’s with the main preloader
  2. have your intro & outro in the content box on stage as part of the main swf.

There is a tute at http://www.actionscript.org on preloading multiple movies which may help, if you can let me have an fla with your intro and outro, and the different text that show for each content movie I will try and put a demo together for you later today - please note - it will be later as I have to earn some folding stuff first.

Cheers

SteveD

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hmmmm you sound like you are orig from this side of the creek?? what caught your eye over there?

i think i follow what you said and have tried playing with some of the paths but just found i got angree!!!

here are the fla files for my smooth trnsition.

the content fla’s load into the main fla where there are three buttons, as you will see they play the intro then outro for the relavent content swf.

all i want for x-mass is for the main fla to be loaded into another fla, and move the three buttons from the main fla onto this new fla. lets call it mainLoader.

content inside main inside mainLoader

mainLoader will have three buttons on the stage and the main fla/swf.

thanks for your time,
i have put all the files for the treans in a folder and zipped the folder, the files where already zipped just didnt know hoe to load all of them?

if this doesnt work then let me know
thanks again

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good start. the file in the pre post is the main
i think i am going to have to post each file in a post sorry!!

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here is the other file

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THANKS FOR THE EMAIL.