button help for external swf

[unfedfunk]

Hi,
I have built a main movie which is used for navigation, and within that movie I have a blank MC called dummy. When the user makes a choice from the main movie, an eternal swf is loaded into the dummy clip.
The exernal file that is loaded has one frame, and uses an onClipEvent(enterFrame)for most of the code. The code does not seem to work when the file is loaded into the dummy clip, but if I pre-view the movie by itself it works fine.
I know it is something simple, but I can not get it to work right.
Thanks in advance,
Josh

[hansel]

move the onclipevent code to the dummy clip on the main timeline.......it will work once the mc loads into the dummy

in other words.......if the dummy clip is called 'dummy'
then it is at _root.dummy
and if you load mc1.swf into _root.dummy
them the timeline of mc1.swf is now referenced as _root.dummy

[KelvBlue]

using the example above, lets say u got a movieclip named, myLoadedMovie in the mc1.swf, after it was loaded into the movie, it will have the level like :

_root.dummy.myLoadedMovie (not _root.myLoadedMovie)

what i think your problem is the components or movieclips in the movieclip to be loaded, eg mc1.swf, is using the level, _root.myLoadedMovie ,this works fine when it is standalone but if you loaded into a movie the level will be wrong. The whole mc1.swf movie will take place of the component in the movie where you load it to, and become the component itself, so in fact all the movieclips in mc1.swf will become lower level.

The best way is to use a relative address when you do the child movie, _parent. , or if u want to use the absolute address you wont be able to test the child movie, you have to load the main movie then call the child movie to test it. Each _parent. will go back one level. Hence _parent._parent. will go back 2 level.

[unfedfunk]

thanks for the help, I made the changes and it worked right away.