Seperate parts of movie

[Camme]

I will, the site should be finished end of this week !

[Camme]

Well, the external swf loads but it's positioned in the wrong place.
How can I position it in the right place ?

[garbage]

You can't position it dynamically - you'll have to do it by hand. Use the grid - it's not that difficult!

[Camme]

You mean positioning the external swf by hand or what? Cus I can't see it

[garbage]

No - position the content in your separate FLA file by hand so that it doesn't overlap when loaded.

[pellepiano]

Or ...

_level1._x=240;
_level1._y=250;

...will position the swf in the _level1 dynamically.

Code could be placed anywhere. Inside external swf or in main movie. The swf has to have started loading though.

[Camme]

I putted it in the main movie in the first frame, but that doesn't work...

[pellepiano]

" The swf has to have started loading though."

..as you cant set a size to something that is not there.

[Camme]

So, I have to do that command when the swf is already imported.
But that will screw up my move cus the preloader will be somewhere else then the movie ...

[pellepiano]

Why not have it in the first frame of the external.swf?

Do you mean the preloader for the external swf? You can have it there to.

[Camme]

Ok, I'll put it in the preloader of the external swf then

[Camme]

YEAH, it works, but now I've created another problem.

When I move over a button, a small message appeaers what the link means.Now I did it with a startdrag command, but now the whole movie is dragged, instead of the message only. The message is supposed to move with ur mouse when u r over the button.

Well, I'm of to bed now, it's 0.45 here, so you'll can't expect a fast reply, sorry

[pellepiano]

loading into a level usually does not interfear with the code ( when loading into a movieclip all _root paths will point to the wrong timeline).

But _level movies only have to watch out for code starting with _level

So show me the start drag command.

[Camme]

 startDrag(_level1.caption,true);
 
then I tried this :
startDrag(_root.caption,true);

I know these both codes are wrong.
So I tried this then
startDrag("caption",true);

But all of these resulted in a  failure

[pellepiano]

What was the code you used before that worked?

[Camme]

it never worked
I had the buttons on another movie with the same code as the first one.
Then it worked...
But now I've pasted it into this new movie and it works.

[pellepiano]

I dont know. I havent used startDrag on a movieclip that way.

[Camme]

BTW I saw ur avatar on an advertisement yesterday of jewelery

[pellepiano]

You mean the girl? Shes taken from a very cheap image library on cdrom ( 36 cd's with 500 000 images for under $100 , Nova Art Explosion). So Ill bet there are many people around the world with access to her =)

[Camme]

Lol, that's why
and BTW, the site is almost finished but there are a couple of bugs, but you'll see it when I post it, maybe u can see what I did wrong then