Help Loadvars->onData .vs MovieClip.loadClip

[MrBaseball34]

Got the following AS2 code (built in CS4):

var ar_movies:Array = new Array();
var ar_links:Array = new Array();
var my_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var movieIndex:Number = 0;

my_lv.onData = function(src:String) {
  if (src == undefined) {
      trace("Error loading content.");
      return;
  }; //if (src == undefined)
  my_lv.decode(src);
  x = 0;
  for (var prop in my_lv) {
    // ****************************************
    // Here is output from the PHP script (wrapped):
    // image0=mysite.com/banners/banner1.swf&
    // image1=mysite.com/banners/banner2.swf&cant=2
    // ****************************************
    if(prop.indexOf('image') > -1) {
      ar_movies.push(my_lv[prop]);
      x++;
    }; // if(prop.indexOf('image') > -1)
  }; // for (var prop in my_lv)
  // ****************************************
  // ar_movies is now loaded
  // ****************************************
};
my_lv.load('www.mysite.com/banner.php', my_lv, "GET");

var playedOnce:Boolean = false;
var depthNum:Number = this.getNextHighestDepth();
var container_mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("container_mc", depthNum);
var MCL:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var mListener:Object = new Object();
mListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
  var url:Array = target_mc._url.split("/");
  var fileName:String = url[url.length-1];
  target_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
     trace ("currentFrames:" + this._currentframe);
     trace ("totalFrames:" + this._totalframes);
    if (this._currentframe == this._totalframes) {
      delete this.onEnterFrame;
      this.stop();
      if (playedOnce == false) {
        playedOnce = true;
        // ****************************************
        // Outputs: Loading: undefined
        // ****************************************
        trace ("Loading:" + ar_movies[movieIndex]);
        MCL.loadClip(ar_movies[movieIndex], container_mc);
        // ****************************************
        // On the next line, I get a Syntax error, 
        // wondering why???
        // ****************************************
        // movieIndex++;
      } else {
        trace("All Done, "+fileName+" Complete");
      }; // if (playedOnce == false)
    }; // if (this._currentframe == this._totalframes)
  }; // target_mc.onEnterFrame = function()
}; // mListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip)
MCL.addListener(mListener);

// ****************************************
// Outputs undefined because it hasn't been loaded yet...
// ****************************************
trace ("Loading:" + ar_movies[movieIndex]);
MCL.loadClip(ar_movies[movieIndex], container_mc);
// ****************************************
// After loading first one, increment so second will be 
// loaded when first one finished
// ****************************************
movieIndex++;

I am able to fill the array just fine now but the clip is trying
to load before the LoadVars is finished loading.

Help???? (see comments in code)

[whispers]

Im not really sure ..but cant you just call/load the movieClip from the onData/onLoad event in the LoadVars object?

[MrBaseball34]

Cool...thanks for the tip...

OK, I've got it working where it rotates between the SWFs. But I can't
understand why the statusbar is constantly saying
"Reading www.listinventory.com"

Is there a way to stop that from happening?

Also, when I change the code in the onEnterFrame to increment movieIndex
instead of decrement, it doe not loop more than once. Any ideas?

var ar_movies:Array = new Array();
var ar_links:Array = new Array();
var my_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var movieIndex:Number = 0;
var depthNum:Number = this.getNextHighestDepth();
var container_mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("container_mc", depthNum);
var MCL:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var mListener:Object = new Object();

mListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
  var playedOnce:Boolean = false;
  var url:Array = target_mc._url.split("/");
  var fileName:String = url[url.length-1];
  target_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
    if (this._currentframe == this._totalframes) {
      delete this.onEnterFrame;
      this.stop();
      if (playedOnce == false) {
        playedOnce = true;
        MCL.loadClip(ar_movies[movieIndex], container_mc);
        if (movieIndex == 0) {
          movieIndex = ar_movies.length-1;
        } else {
          movieIndex--;
        } // if (movieIndex == 0)
        /*
        // If I try it this way, it won't rotate back to the first movie.
        if (movieIndex == ar_movies.length) {
          movieIndex = 0;
        } else {
          movieIndex++;
        } // if (movieIndex == ar_movies.length)
        */
        trace(movieIndex);
      }; // if (playedOnce == false)
    }; // if (this._currentframe == this._totalframes)
  }; // target_mc.onEnterFrame = function()
}; // mListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip)
MCL.addListener(mListener);

my_lv.onData = function(src:String) {
  /*
  The data is loaded in like a query string this format:
  index0=http://www.mysite.com/movie1.swf&index1=http://www.mysite.com/movie2.swf&cant=2
  
  variable cant is noo longer used.
  */
  if (src == undefined) {
    trace("Error loading content.");
    return;
  }; //if (src == undefined)
  my_lv.decode(src);
  x = 0;
  for (var prop in my_lv) {
    if(prop.indexOf('image') > -1) {
      ar_movies.push(my_lv[prop]);
      x++;
    }; // if(prop.indexOf('image') > -1)
  }; // for (var prop in my_lv)
  MCL.loadClip(ar_movies[movieIndex], container_mc);
  movieIndex++;
};
my_lv.load('http://www.listinventory.com/banner.php', my_lv, "GET"); 

Preview HTML:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>CrimpToolsRotator</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#8080FF">
	<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" 
	        codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" 
	        width="715" height="90" 
	        id="CrimpToolsRotator" align="middle">
	<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
	<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
	<param name="movie" value="CrimpToolsRotator.swf" />
	<param name="quality" value="high" />
	<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />	
	<embed src="CrimpToolsRotator.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="715" 
	       height="90" name="CrimpToolsRotator" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" 
	       allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
	       pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
	</object>
</body>
</html>

[whispers]

I think the status bar thing is just because its "FLASH"..

I dont think it goes away..but who knows..LOL

if you want you can post an AS2 version in F8 or CS3 format.. and I can give it a look today while Im at work..

.zip it up though please.. =)

[MrBaseball34]

Ok, here you go. If you'd like, you can modify the PHP code to return the desired result, as shown above...

[MrBaseball34]

Oh, another thing, Whispers.
I've tried all these things to get the scaling correct and it still doesn't do
right. Check out
http://www.listinventory.com/crimptoolsrotator.html

The bottom one is how it is currently done on our site, but since I am trying to rotate several SWFs I need the rotator SWF to handle that.

The other SWF that I load, the link is at the bottom of this post, scales perfectly for the stage in the rotator.

How do I make sure the loaded clip(s) are scaled to the stage?

container_mc.width = 715;
container_mc._height = 90;
this.stage.width = 715;
this.stage.height= 90;
this.stage.scaleMode = noScale;
this.stage.scaleMode = exactFit;


http://www.listinventory.com/file_up...ers/banner.swf

We currently show 2 SWFs and "rotate" them using JavaScript but sometimes they bleed over one another.

http://www.listinventory.com