dynamically creating instance name of movie clip

[flash_kid76]

Hi everyone

a shove inthe right direction very much needed.

I have a movie clip (Lets call it mc01.swf) that I am loadin on my main movie.
this movioe clip is loaded inside an empty container in my main movie. the contaner mc han instant name "contmc"

I want to stop the loaded Mc i.e mc01.swf whcih is loading inside the empty container.

any idea how i can target the time line of teh loaded movieclip??

thanks for your help

P.S. im using flash MX

[laxmi19885]

contaner.contmc.stop();

[oldnewbie]

_root.contmc.stop();

[flash_kid76]

i did that it does not work

[Steve_w_V]

If it didn't work then there may be a problem in the spelling of the paths.

[flash_kid76]

Okie thisis crazy!!

and for some reason now i'm totaly dazed and confused

The path is correct this is what I did

In the empty container mc i.e. "contmc" on the first frame i gave the load movie script and targeted "contmc"

now "contmc" is on the main time line.

on the main time line i gave the following script

_root.contmc.Stop();

I gave this on the 70th frame (becasue the loaded movie is 50 frames long and I am loding it on the 20th frame of the main time line)

AND THIS WORKED.

Initially this script
_root.contmc.Stop();
was inside the "contmc' movie clip and it didnt work then
i even tried _root.contmc.this.Stop(); but it didnt work


any explaination?

Is tehre a way to give an instance name dynamically to a movie thats being loaded ??

thanks for your time and help.

[Steve_w_V]

Thas a good question. I know how to dynamically name MC's already there, but not? Hmm....

But as for your problem, that's strange. Dunno why it wouldn't work.

[oldnewbie]

stop(); or this.stop(); alone (and not Stop();) would of done it on the last frame of the movie clip!

[flash_kid76]

hi Steve, thanks for your reply

you mean u know how to dynamically name a MC thats already there but not a MC thats being loaded??

hi OldNewbie
Thanks for your reply

Well i did give a stop(); onthe last frame of the "contmc"

it didnt work either

the problem is that I am loading an swf thats generated in 3dmax and exported as a swf file. so i cant put a stop action in the swf that i am loading


I just wanted to know how come its working if the stop action is given outside the empty container and that same code does not work when targeted from witin the container movie clip.

im sure thre is some logic that my lil brain cannot make out

[oldnewbie]

When you load an external movie in a container clip, the container clip's content is replaced by the loaded movie, and that movie is now referred to with the container's instance name.
That's why it works when using _root.contmc.stop(); (no capital S), because your stopping whatever is in the container clip, which is now your loaded movie.

But you could also have another empty control clip that would constantly monitor the "contmc" clip's current frame and stop it whenever you wanted.

As for dynamic naming and creating a movie clip...
You can create a dynamic movie clip at runtime, and give it whatever name you want to give it. Without having tested it (because I don't really see the point), don't see why you couldn't pull in an instance name variable from a text file and use that variable when creating your dynamic movie clip. Just don't see the point!

[Steve_w_V]

Originally posted by flash_kid76
hi Steve, thanks for your reply
...
you mean u know how to dynamically name a MC thats already there but not a MC thats being loaded??

Yea. Simple:

code:

---

this._name="myClip";

---

Does this apply to all content being loaded into it? Will commands such as gotoAnd_____ and stop() and play() and all the frame controlling scripts work? Seems like they would/should.

[flash_kid76]

Originally posted by oldnewbie
When you load an external movie in a container clip, the container clip's content is replaced by the loaded movie, and that movie is now referred to with the container's instance name.
That's why it works when using _root.contmc.stop(); (no capital S), because your stopping whatever is in the container clip, which is now your loaded movie.

my query is that the srcipt works when put outside the MC and it doesnt work if its put inside the "Contmc"

So is it becasue u cant control the timeline using
_root.contmc.stop();
if used inside the contmc?

QUOTE]Originally posted by oldnewbie
As for dynamic naming and creating a movie clip...
You can create a dynamic movie clip at runtime, and give it whatever name you want to give it. Without having tested it (because I don't really see the point), don't see why you couldn't pull in an instance name variable from a text file and use that variable when creating your dynamic movie clip. Just don't see the point! [/QUOTE]

im sorry, but I really dont understand this
im not much of a coder.

Thanks for your time and help

[oldnewbie]

What I'm saying is that whatever you originally put in the "contmc" movie clip, graphics, images and CODE, is lost when you load a new external movie in this clip, and replaced by the content of the new loaded movie. Only the instance's name remains the same. That's why if you put _root.contmc.stop(); in the "contmc" but then load another movie into it, that code is lost.

If the new loaded movie, had a button with that code within itself though, then it would work.

[flash_kid76]

hey thanks Old newbie,
i figutred that out over the week end but was not too sure about it.
your explaination confirmed that my thought were inthe right direction :-)

Once again thanks for your time and help everyone