MOVIE in a MOVIE in a MOVIE

[smarsh]

Hi,

I have a master .swf that calls second level .swfs as needed and they work fine. But when one of the second level movies calls a third level into it (nested in the master), the third level functionality stops working properly.

The third level movie has buttons for image scrolling that interact w/the mouse fine but don't cause the image scrolling to happen.

Anyone know why this might be happening?

Thank you!

[maybe_lt]

hi, i had same problem about one year ago, i think flahs can't load and make work the third movie in movie.

i solved it like this:
i made a place (movie named third) for third movie in a main.swf
and on when i press the button in the second movie(script is like this:

on (release) {
_root.third.loadMovie ("third.swf");
}

)
it loads me a third movie.
that's all.

[smarsh]

Thanks. I tried that but it doesn't work either (similar to what I had). I've noticed that if I skip the master movie and open the second, theproblem still exists w/the 3rd movie just in the second level. The 3rd level movie does work on its own.

[maybe_lt]

in the main movie make a place for movie2 and movie3
and if u opening the movie3 from movie2 with that script it will work.

it must work.

[smarsh]

I don't understand your explanation.

Visually 3 sits on 2 which sits on 1 - functionally 3 is in 2 in 1

They load but 3 doesn't fuction properly inside 2 (even w/o 1).

My problem is the loss of functionality 3 has inside of 2.

Thanks.

[tnasharp]

i had the same prob...when its movie in a movie in a movie...

give instance name to all the movies u have made in the diff fla's..
and in the first frame of all the movies write the code -

trace("instanceName"); // replace this instanceName with ur names

and publish all...

now open the master fla and press ctrl+enter to debug the output window should start tracing the instances like...

_level0.movie1
_level0.movie1.movie2
_level0.movie1.movie2.movie3

etc, etc,

but if u get something like this...

_level0.movie1
_level0.movie1.instance32
_level0.movie1.instance32.movie3

u have caught ur error ... a missing instanceName. Find "instance32" or what ever and give it a custom name everything will work out fine

tnasharp

[smarsh]

Thanks. That was an interesting thing to learn but no problems came up. I used trace("main"); etc. and it showed each instance name like "main" but not in the format _level0.main.movie2.movie3 just the name I gave.

The movies all load, the third level just stops functioning properly.