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[Mirandir]

Well From my experience depth almost the same as the layers you create when making the the movie. but those layers begin at a really low depth. Only those that contain gfx is counted. the lowest layer is on depth -16383.

/Mirandir

[Sovereign]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mirandir

Well you need not wait wile the movieclip loads if you use attachMovie(). The attachment is instant. and is complete in the very next line of code. Loadmovie on the otherhand can wary greatly in loading time.
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You have been really helpful thanks. What I meant by allowing one clip to delay is that I want the first clip to load before the second one begins - is that possible?

i.e.
_root.attachMovie("linkage1","instName1",2);
//and then some sort of delay like waiting until the 19 frames have played through
_root.attachMovie("linkage2","instName2",3);

Thanks again for all your help.

[Frag]

you could give the second frame this action:

if (_root.instName1._currentframe == 19) {
_root.attachMovie("linkage2","instName2",3);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}

hope that'll help some

[Sovereign]

Cheers Frag.

It hasn't worked (yet), but that may be my syntax. This is my code:

on (release) {
_root.attachMovie("navig1","navi2",2);
_root["navi2"]._X = 320
_root["navi2"]._Y = 680
if (_root.navi2._currentframe == 19) {
_root.attachMovie("working2","navi",3);
_root["navi"]._X = 392
_root["navi"]._Y = 494
} else {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
}

Perhaps you can spot a mistake? The debug doesn't!

S

[Mirandir]

There are a number of ways this could be achieved.

one way is to put a stop() command at the first frame of the first movie. this will make it halt at the first frame. or you can stop it when attaching it:

_root.attachMovie("linkage1","instName1",3);
instName1.stop();

then on the first frmae of the second movie:

_parent.instName1.play();

another way is to make the first movie play when you link the second movie at frame 19:

_root.attachMovie("linkage2","instName2",3);
instName1.play();

However note that even if a stop command occurs at the first line of code all code of that frame will be executed. If this is not desireable you can just add an extra keyframe at the beginning without the undesired AS.

/Mirandir