rollOut problem

[tomstaveley]

Hi. I have created a button that, when pressed, loads up an external swf into an empty MC above the button, that contains a list (menu) of artists names (called Test Tsunami 3.swf). This is the coding on the empty MC:

[code]
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_root.choose_btn.onRelease = function() {
createEmptyMovieClip("tsunami_external_mc", 1);
with (tsunami_external_mc) {
_x = 5.2;
_y = -210.7;
loadMovie("Test Tsunami 3.swf", true);
}
_root.empty_mc.onRollOut = function() {
delete empty_mc;
};
};
}
[/code)

This works fine but i want it so when u move the mouse cursor off of the button or the loaded list, i want it to delete the swf so it returns back to it's normal state, i tried to do this at the end of the script above, why won't this work?

Regards
Tom

[SuperOito]

this work!!?? you have a small problem of }

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	_root.choose_btn.onRelease = function() {
		createEmptyMovieClip("tsunami_external_mc", 1);
		with (tsunami_external_mc) {
			_x = 5.2;
			_y = -210.7;
		}
		loadMovie("Test Tsunami 3.swf", true);
	};
	_root.empty_mc.onRollOut = function() {
		delete empty_mc;
	};
}

[tomstaveley]

lol, i think this might work but when i click it nothing happens, but what i think might have happened is that it has loaded it and then deleted it straight away, how do i solve this?

thanks

[tomstaveley]

here's a zip containing the .fla of the button and the swf that i want to load into the button one, to help solve my problem...

thanks
tom

[ham_360]

Hello tom.
You problem is with the delete function.
Try this:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	_root.choose_btn.onRelease = function() {
		createEmptyMovieClip("tsunami_external_mc", 1);
		with (tsunami_external_mc) {
			_x = 5.2;
			_y = -210.7;
		}
		loadMovie("Test Tsunami 3.swf", true);
	};
	_root.empty_mc.onRollOut = function() {
		empty_mc.removeMovieClip
	};
}

removeMovieCLip rather than delete

Hope this helps!

[tomstaveley]

lol didnt seem to work - same visual result as the coding SuperOito
gave me, thanks anyway.

Any other ideas???

Tom

[Bostonian]

I couldn't get it to work either the way you were trying it so I made a simpler solution.

I manually placed a blank MC at approx x:5 y:-200 like you were doing dynamically. Place this on that MC...

on(RollOut){
this.unloadMovie();

Then I just instructed your choose_btn MC to load the swf containingthe Tsunami into that. Worked liked a charm. (also you wont be bogging the program down with an unneeded "onEnterframe"). And I would go into the choose_btn MC and delete that button inside and just place the contents of "choose" directly with choose_btn.

Hope this helps you.

[tomstaveley]

i don't suppose u could send ur version tht u tried could u? i'm a little confused :S (blonde!)

thanks a lot!

Tom

[Bostonian]

You need to republish the uploading Tsunami menu from Flash 5 to at least Flash 6. Thats the problem.

[tomstaveley]

YAY! It finally works, great!
Thank you for finding the problem - I would've never of found it!!!

Regards
Tom