i started to make a website some weeks ago. its my very first flash website, and it was going suprisingly well, until i got stuck this evening.
i'm building a portfolio website with this kind of futuristic theme. so here's the thing. i built in a simple loadingscreen which opens when the file is fully downloaded. this loadingscreen is on the top most layer of the file, but for some weird reason, some other element just pop op over my loading screen.
as u can see in the added .fla file there is no indication that the element that is starting to disrupt the loadingscreen shouldnt be starting to play at all, since it stopped on it's first frame (the projectormain movieclip(instancename: promain_mc)) . the loadingscreen runs through the first 2 frames, and the element that pops up shouldn't start playing at all. yet when i run the movie the movieclip starts running in frame 2, over the loadingscreen.
basicly there is like 2 problems here: why is it running at frame 2? and why is it running over the loading screen?
i attached a slim version of my actual website, just enough to see whats the problem is.
anybody sees where i screw up :)? any help would be appriacated.
you need all objects in library checked for export for action script and then export for first frame unchecked otherwise the stage objects will load visually the stop(); function is mostly for frame by frame animations and for stopping actionscript from executing however every stage object will try to load with the first frame if you don't uncheck export for first frame right click on an object in the library and throughly look at all the options..go ahead and check and uncheck stuff play around whatever untill you are familiar with all the stuff in there ....I'd use a test copy of your .fla ...its always good to have a source copy and another copy that you are planning on putting into production that way if you screw up the current version and don't know how you screwed it up you can go back to the "source"version.
i found out what the problem was! had some poor timeline control, some if..else if statements caused the element to swapdepths and play on the wrong time and layer. thnx for the help