Positioning a swf movies with loadMovie

Ok here is my problem.

I am trying to load a seperate swf into a playing movie. This swf is for a CDrom and the loaded movie contains my video. I can get the video to play, but not load in the position I want it to. Here is the code I am using on the button:

on (release){
loadMovie("video.swf", 1)_x41_y84;
}

Can anyone show me the correct format? THis is REALLY driving me nuts :rolleyes:

Thanks everyone
JF

hi
try this:
on (release){
loadMovie("video.swf", 1)
_level1._x = 41;
_level1._y = 84;
}

hope it helps

Nope it is still loading the movie at the 0,0 coordinates. :(

Thanks though for trying..

This is going to drive me nuts I know it

sorry

it works like this:

on(release){
var mcLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
myListener = new Object();
myListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc) {
target_mc._x = 41;
target_mc._y = 84;
};
mcLoader.addListener(myListener);
mcLoader.loadClip("video.swf", 1);
}

forget prev post

What if I placed an empty movie clip in the Flash and named it video_clip?

If I wanted to load the external swf movie into that MC what would script? Something like this?

on (release){
video_clip.loadMovie("video.swf",1);
}

you can create the "place holder movie" on the fly like this:

on (release) {
this.createEmptyMovieClip("placeHolder",1);
placeHolder.loadMovie("sub.swf");
placeHolder._x = 41;
placeHolder._y = 84;
}

Ok well that somewhat worked. Using that code to make the MC on the fly brings in the audio, but no video LOL.

So instead of creating a MC on the fly I placed a MC named Viewer on the stage, then used this script to load the external movie:

on(release){
loadMovie("video.swf", _root.viewer);
viewer._x=41;
viewer._y=84;
}

So now it loads both the video and audio but it is placed on the bottom of the screen and not at the coordinates I specified.

This has always been my weak point in Flash scripting, it just always seems to give me issues.

If you have any recommendations please feel free to provide them, and I wanted to also thank you for taking the time to reply to my questions with all of your great suggestions.

JF

Hi,

You can control the loaded movie. Set their _x,_y,_xscale,_yscale. You can make them to where and how large you want.The trick is, this must be done after the movie is loaded. Although you can control _x,_y if you load it into a movieClip. Load a movie into level 1 by loadMovieNum("test.swf",1);Make a dummy movieClip to be loaded with the following code...

... load a movie to level1 by loadMovieNum("test.swf",1);

Make a dummy movieClip and write the codes below:
code:

code:

---

onClipEvent(load){loaded=false;}

onClipEvent(enterFrame){

	if(loaded==false){

		if(_level1._currentframe>0){

			with(_level1){_x=100;_y=100;_width=100;_height=100  ;}

			loaded=true;

		}		

	}

}

---

You will get you movie loaded at 100,100 and width height 100,100. if you load movie to movieClip...

code:

---

onClipEvent(load){loaded=true;}

onClipEvent(enterFrame){

	if(loaded==true){return;}

		if(_root.MC2._width>0){

			with(_root.MC2){_x=100;_y=100;_width=100;_height=1  00;}

			loaded=true;

		}

}

---

And the button:

code:

---

 

on(release){MC2.loadMovie("test.swf");MC.loaded=fa  lse;} 

---

One other thing to mention is you can even use variable names to control the loaded movie...

on (release){
myMovie = loadMovie("video.swf", 1);
myMovie._x = 41;
myMovie._y = 84;
}


HTH
NTD