Problem unloading movie?

1

Hi guys,
new to Actionscript, and you guys have been a real help. So im hoping you can come through on this one. thanx in advance.

newbie problem: flash website with a frame that displays html. one or more of the html pages have embedded swf’s. using URLLoader to load the html. all pages work fine, for the FIRST CLICK. if I load an html that contains an embedded swf, then try to reload it, the swf glitches (like it does when you are trying to load a movie that is already loaded).

What I need:

  1. a way to run a condition check to see if a URLLoader is currently loaded, and if so, unload it before loading the next url.(doesnt unload like a loaded swf ???)
  2. a way to unload swf hosted in html page, unless I can just unload the page from the html frame and have it work that way.

your input is most helpful.

2

can you post your code.

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3

2 supersimple html pages like

page 1
<body>This is a test</body>
</html>

page 2
<body><img src=“test.swf”/>
<br>
second page test</body>
</html>

frame 1 has something like:

var page1req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“page1.html”);
var url_loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

url_loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
url_loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onError);

function onComplete(e:Event)
{

textwindow.htmlText = (e.target.data);

}

function onError(e:IOErrorEvent)
{
trace(“Something wrong!”);
}

url_loader.load(page1req);

frame2 is like:
var page2req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“page2.html”);
url_loader.load(page2req);

clicking back and forth, page 1 refreshes properly, page 2 load right the first time, but when clicking back to page2 after that gives me a glitch in the movie(blacked out) and the rest of the html works.

4

try setting the htmltext to null before loading the html into it. this might hopefully clear the cache for the variable.

5

tried that just now, it traces out, but the swf still glitches on the second run.

6

even when nulling out the urlloaders too ?

I’ve found that url loaders dont like being used more than once.

7

try this, it may help, it’s a grant skinner post about unload movie issue