navigate with loaded movie

[joewong]

Hi,
I am trying to load an external movie (say movie B) into a movieclip object in movie A. Is it possible to navigate (ie loading and unloading movies) in movie A from the buttons created in movie B?
Thanks in advance.
Joe

[pellepiano]

Yes, just reerence the _root in your actions.

_root.MyOtherLoadedMC.gotoAndPlay(2);

You can get from any movie to any movie, be it in another _level or 20 movieclips down in another movieclip.

You can do it with absolute paths (_root) or relative.

[oldnewbie]

Pellepiano...

_root wont work from a movie loaded on another level! In that case you have to use _level0, otherwise you'll target the root level of the loaded movie itself on that other level.
_root will only work from within container clips, but _level0 will work in both situations, so you should recommend using _level0 rather than _root, unless you're actually targeting the root level of a loaded movie on another level!

[pellepiano]

When different levels are involved you are correct,they are referenced with, _level. My last statement in the post was clearly misleading. Sorry.

[markus H.]

if you make a reference to a clip in movie A you can nest movie B in it and make a ref to its controller.

example:

movie A is loaded
command in A to load movie B
ref to movie A in movie B

// create depth
(this.level == undefined)? this.level = 1 : this.level;
//create clipholder
this.createEmptyMovieClip("clipholderA",level++);
//loadmovie
loadMovie("test.swf", this.clipholderA);
this.clipholderA._x = this.clipholderA._y = 100


//Or if clip is in Library (easier)
this.attachMovie("testSymbol","clipholderB",level+ +,{controller:this})
//now you can acces clipholderB bij its controller who is his parent
trace(this.clipholderB.controller._name)

[markus H.]

put in the same dir/map as the fla

[joewong]

Thanks for the input people.

Just one more thing I need to make sure, when I use attachmovie to load a menu (a movie clip from the library) into a empty movieclip. How do I use the newly loaded menu to navigate at _level0?

Eg. Menu in the library = MovProductsMenu and the movie clip that the menu is loaded into = contents,

To attach the menu when a button (Products) is pressed, I wrote:
Products.onPress = function() {
attachMovie( MovProductsMenu, "MovProductsMenu", 2 );
contents.attachMovie("MovProductsMenu", "ProductsMenu",2);
};

Then when a button (Button1) inside the loaded menu is pressed:
_level0.contents.MovProductsMenu.Button1.onPress = function() {
loadMovie("swf/pic1.swf", "_level0.contents");
};
This doesn't seem to work. Please help.

[markus H.]

try to get rid of those solid navigations...
and work more with small functions in the movieclips itself it makes the code alot easier. in the library only a square and a clip called button2

make sure that youve got the '' and "" right

see the fla.

// button on stage named button and a dynamic textfield named textfield

this.level = (this.level==undefined) ? 1 : this.level;

this.button.onRelease = function () {
this._parent.callClip("Square", "square_mc");
};
//
this.callClip = function(idname,newname){
this.attachMovie (idname,newname,this.level++, {controller:this});
}
//
this.doAction = function (text) {
this.textfield.text = text
};

// in the library clip a button named button2:
this.button2.onRelease = function(){
this._parent.controller.doAction("hello")
}

[markus H.]

i keep forgetting this.

[joewong]

thanks alot