preloading movieclips

[shott_away]

People

I have a flash movie and at the end of the movie i am inserting three movieclips in specific places. This is done manually in the timeline each on its own keyframe. Each mc has a preloader inside it, but the preloader does not work. how do i go about preloading these movie clips individually????

Or do i just say on the keyframe loadmovie and call in the .swf file??
with a preloader in that .swf file.

If you can understand my problem then some help would be fantastic.


Shott

[msaleh]

well..
its better that you make each one of those mcs into a seperate swf file, then you load the files each into a host mc (empty mc in the place that you want those to be)...
each file have a preloader at the begining.

use the loadMovie() method to load the files.
that's better than having three mcs in the same timeline.

[shott_away]

Ive never heard of a host mc and dont really know how to go about it. I know how to load .swf file in movies. Any chance of sending me to a tutorial or showing me an example .fla file??

Regards

Shott

[msaleh]

a host mc is nothing but a normal empty mc.
you do a mc (with nothing inside), then place it on the stage and give it a name (ex: "host_mc"), then:

code:

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host_mc.loadMovie("file.swf");

// OR

loadMovie("file.swf", "host_mc");

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the timeline of the host_mc will be REPLACED by the timeline of the loaded swf file.

[shott_away]

Works perfectly!!! Thanks mate.

Shott