targeting

[00trowley]

Hi--

Is there a good tutorial about levels and targeting...ie loading external swfs inside empty movie clips within a "master file"?

Any help would be appreciated...

Thank you...

[oldnewbie]

Empty movie clips are not levels... This may somewhat clear that up...

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...evelsdepth.htm

As for loading in movie clips containers...

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/loading.htm

On levels...

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/loadmovie.htm

[00trowley]

Thanks--
I went to the kirupa download, and got it to work.

It should be good for what I'm doing...

One other thing...is there a way to target an individual frame within an external swf? something like
_root.navbar_mc.loadMovie("navbar.swf", 5);

I know that's not right, it did not work, but is there a way to do that?

Thanks...

[GemQuest Guru]

With your targeting the root folder, as well as (I'm assuming) the frame number (5), wouldn't you also need to address what level it should go into?
Just a thought.

[oldnewbie]

Are you loading the movie in a container clip or on another level?
loadMovie or loadMovieNum?

[00trowley]

I would be loading from one external swf, within the container, to another external swf, within the same container.

The targeted frame would be in the _root of one the external swf files.

Okay...
I have to go, so I'll check back tomorrow...

Thanks

[00trowley]

Another targeting question--

Here is the scenrio:

I have "main.swf", in "main.swf" I have a button that loads a movie into an empty movie clip called "my_content_mc". The movie is "gallery.swf". in "gallery.swf" I have another button that loads a movie into an empty movie clip on that stage called "large_ image.swf". In "large_image.swf" I have a "back" button that I would like to link back to "gallery.swf". How would I do that? And is possible to link back to "gallery.swf" on a specific frame?

Okay,

Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks

[00trowley]

For some reason, when the "gallery.swf" loads into "content_mc" on the "main.swf" stage, the thumbnails don't work(I have scrolling thumbnails). The action that displays the image (attached to each thumbnail) is imbedded within a container(that scrolls). Does anyone know why that happens?

thank you

[00trowley]

nevermind about that last question, I figured it out. I used _parent. instead of _root.

I still have to try to target the specific frame...we'll se how that goes.

Thanks