[MX04] macromedia didnt think through the loadMovie function

Why does it display EVERYTHING in an SWF file when I call it from LoadMovie()? I'm trying to make a flash menu of different cartoons on my site and when they load from the URL they show everything. Everything outside the canvas. What's the point of the resolution boundaries when its just going to ignore them and display everything, even what wasn't meant to be seen?

Did anyone think that through in Macromedia? Does anyone else have that problem? Because I don't think I can think of a scenerio where you'd WANT things outside the boundaries being shown.

Oh yea, and also anyone know how to fix that? Thanks...

You can change the dimensions of the movieclip you're loading into by accessing the movieclip

Code:

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MovieClipLoadedInto._width = 500;
MovieClipLoadedInto._height = 550;
MovieClipLoadedInto._x = 0;
MovieClipLoadedInto._y = 0;

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You get the idea,
-Danny

i tried that. it doesnt work especially because if theres objects in the negative X and Y it renders them in the corner. =(

if i cant get this to work i am going to hang myself.

You have to make sure the loaded movie clip has finished loading before you can reposition.

-Danny

If your loader SWF has a large enough canvas, of course it will show everything in the loaded SWF. If you want to restrict what you can see in the loaded SWF, use either a mask or hide certain MCs...

Code:

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loaderMC.mc1._visible = false;

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And as kig said, the MC needs to be fully loaded before you can assign properties to it.

ok awesome, so I guess change the properties in onClipEvent(data)?

width and height seem to do the same thing as xscale and yscale....

just load it into an empty movieclip (which is on the topleft of the stage)... Alternatively just load it into a level

loadMovie("external.swf", 2);

in both case make sure make sure ur external movie stage size is the same as the main movie

I think silentweed meant to say,

Code:

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loadMovieNum("external.swf",2);

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oops yep thats what i meant, thats the offical way!! however

loadMovie("external.swf", 2);

works for levels as well as movieclips.

macromedia doesnt really need loadMovieNum lol