How to Toggle loaded SWF visible/invisible??

[asterix987]

Hi,

I have a site consisting of a number of SWF's layered on top of one another. The bottom SWF (level0) contains most of the navigation and background for the site. I'd like to be able to control the visibility of some of the SWFs on top of level0 by various navigational choices from various other levels.

In other words, A mouseclick in level 6, should make level3 beneath it invisible, then, maybe later, another navigational choice should make level 3 visible again, without having to load and unload movies all the time.

If anyone could give me some help with scripting this, I'd be very grateful.

thank you,

Ben

[gparis]

_level3._visible=0;//makes it invisible
_level3._visible=1;//makes it visible
gparis

[mbritton]

I thought it was a boolean:

instanceName._visible = false;
instanceName._visible = true;

Is this not correct?

[Mediamonkey]

0 = false
1 = true

it's the same

[mbritton]

Personally to make my code more understandable I use true/false for booleans, but yeah, you're right.

[modulater]

Hi there,

I have problems unloading external files into level1.
The button that should unload the external file is placed inside an mc and the mc placed on the scene.It's a button that ones is hit keeps in frame 2 of an mc.
So to unload I gave the code inside the mc on the button.

on(release){
_parent.unloadMovieNum (1);
}

Is this wrong code?

I also won't to hide a holder to make the loaded swf on that holder not visible.

Again this is a button inside an mc.The holder is placed on the scene.

To do this I did the following.

on(release){
_parent.holder._visible = false;
}

Also bad code?

Someone can help out on these probs.Big thx in advance

Grtz,

Modulater

[mbritton]

I had the same problem, and began loading external mcs into target clips instead of levels. Doing it with levels is a pain in the ass.

Try createEmptyMovieClip, followed by either loadMovie or attaching from the library. That way you can use unloadMovie instead of unloadMovieNum. For some reason I've just found this way cleaner.

As for toggling the clip's visibility, mcName._visible = false is correct. Try trace statements like trace(typeof mcName) to verify your movie is there and that it's a movieclip. It may be some other datatype.

Some sample code:

// Create empty clip on level 0
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("clip", 0);
trace("clip is type: " + typeof clip);

clip.createEmptyMovieClip("target", 0);
trace("target is type: " + typeof target);

// Load external swf into the target
clip.target.loadMovie("fileNme.swf");

// Now you can adjust properties as you see fit
clip.target._visible = false;
trace(clip.target._visible);

hth,

Mike

[euphoricGenius]

you can always use swapDepth() to change it then remove it dynamically.


eG

[mbritton]

It quickly becomes a pain to keep track of the depths.