older flash with newer versions

[watley]

Hi, I am a newbie to flash 8 and flashkit forums. My problem is this. I have a flash website. I host quite a few .swf games which I did not create and are older versions of flash. I wish to embed the games into my current flash 8 swf via buttons I create in my fla. When I try to load them into the swf(either with the "loadMovie" script or by using the "create new Movie Clip loader) they will load into the main swf, but will not function. Any ideas?

[kortex]

Were these previously loaded into other movie, or did they function as standalone pieces?

[deldelfarrom]

Were they written so that they are requesting from _level0.functionName?

If they are, being loaded into a higher level of another movie will cause the _level0 to be pointing to the parent rather than your games.

And to asnwer the question that was implied, I have used lots of old stuff and using it in newer flash has never caused problems that the trace outputs didn't make obvious.

[watley]

They are standalone. I'm not sure I know what you mean by the level_0.function

[kortex]

_level0 or _root

When you load a movie into another movie, _root or _level0 now references to the movie that the sub movie is being loaded into. Hence any references to _root in the loaded movie that used to point to that movie now point to the parent movie.

So the quick fix it to set _lockroot = true on the clip that gets loaded. Such as
holder_mc._lockroot = true
where holder_mc is the movie clip that the sub clips are being loaded into.

[watley]

That's the Ticket, Kortex. You guys are the best.

[watley]

Thanks to both of you