laodMovie & buttons

[creekmonkey]

Is it not possible to create a movie, then load it into another movie and have the buttons and functions still work?

my_movie=this.createMovie();
my_movie.loadMovie("url");

Button and scripts will not work in child movie using this method.

BUT! if I just use loadMovie("url");
everything works fine, except I can not unload movie using this method.

[ppedz]

What I think you need to do is lock your root so that the loaded movie's root references the root of the entire movie not the 1 you just created.

So your code should be...

my_movie=this.createMovie();
my_movie._lockroot = true;
my_movie.loadMovie("url");

Please note that the _lockroot must be set BEFORE your loadMovie.

[creekmonkey]

Doent work. Even if I create the child movie within the main movie when exported it doesnt work.

Is there any way to "unload" a movie that is loaded with
loadMovie("url") instead of using my_movie=this.createMovie('url")?

[ConnELITE]

this is kind of a stupid work around but I loaded a movie with loadMovie("url") and the movie I loaded would load the orginal movie if you clicked another button. Just an idea, but in experiance I have not been able to get the whole createmovie loadmovie thing to work as it should. Maybe it will be fixed in V5?

[ppedz]

If you don't mind, zip your .movie and any associated files and upload it to the forum so that I can get a better understanding of what your trying to do because the _lockroot should work but maybe your doing things in a different way than I'm thinking.

Also there is an unloadMovie() method (my_movie.unloadMovie()).

[creekmonkey]

just a simple movie with a button with actions

[rui_eduardo]

1 - Sorry my english.
2 - I'm not a pro.
3 - I had this problem before, no one in this forum got help me with this (in that time the support from 3dfa was zero), the unique help we had - Belanius. I got a work around.
4 - Following link load images into a main movie, and buttons work: http://www.sagos.pt/TESTES/load_jpg_v0005/ .
5 - Following link load images into movie inside a main movie, buttons work: http://www.sagos.pt/TESTES/anim_site/site_sagos_v7/ .
6 - This is my experience, is this help you?
7 - If yes i put my code here.
Rui Paiva

[creekmonkey]

thanks rui_eduardo.
It would be a help if I could see the code.

[rui_eduardo]

Please go to the above links and click on Load CODE.

Rui

Sorry, the link is this: http://www.sagos.pt/TESTES/

[ppedz]

I exported the child_movie again and everything seemed to work. Try re-exporting the child_movie again yourself. If you still have a problem then what I need to know is what version of 3DFA you are using?

[creekmonkey]

Problem solved " I THINK".
I was exporting as flash 7. I changed to export movie as flash 8 and it worked.

[creekmonkey]

is there anyway to do this same thing or something similar for a child movie.
When I have a child movie and export it im having the same problems.
Sometimes but not always i get an error that says something like The javascript function 'element ("")' can only be used for elements with properties on line 2
mlink("root[instruction@90][Movie 208@8]").gotoAndPlay("sc2")

this error does not always show, but the scripts do not work.

[ppedz]

Upload an example and maybe someone can come up with how to fix it.