[RESOLVED] call one function from one mc to another

[jonis56]

AS2

In two movieclips how to call myfunction(parameter) so that the function loads only when it initializes like the onLoadInit method

myfunction.onLoadInit = function(parameter) {

trace("parameter==" + parameter);

}

I want to call a fucntion that does something like the above from the first mc while the function is declared in the second.

[gparis]

Since onLoadInit is an event of the MovieClipLoader Class, i gotta ask, in your example myfunction is your listener's name?

gparis

[jonis56]

Thank you really for the response!!

As i searched yes it has to be a listener but i can not make it work. See below.

This is what works now:
In the first movieclip==mc1 i have the

PHP Code:

this._parent._parent.mc2.loadimage.loadClip(this._parent.image,this._parent._parent.mc2.image_mc);


and inside the mc2 i have

PHP Code:

var loadimage:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var listener:Object = new Object();
listener.onLoadInit = function() {
    image_mc.alphaTo(100,1,"",0);
    
};
loadimage.addListener(listener);


OK the above works very well and the image is loaded where i want it but i want to pass a parameter too that i can handle in mc2. Because of the nature of my rest code I want it to be done only in an onLoadInit. So i think that i have two options
1)to make another listener that will read the parameter
2)to use the same listener and read in there the parameter
i don't know neither of both how to make them work...

I tried to make a second listener like

PHP Code:

var myvar;
var listener2:Object = new Object();
listener2.onLoadInit = function(myparameter) {
    trace("myparameter" + myparameter);
};
myvar.addListener(listener2);


and call it from mc1 like previously

PHP Code:

this._parent._parent.mc2.myvar(myparameter);


Something is wrong with the
var myvar; or the last "php" code.
Any ideas?

[jonis56]

the problem is that i don't use the MovieClipLoader class in the second listener... so can i somehow have a function with a behavior like the onLoadInit that happens only one time?

how else to pass a variable in mc2 from mc1?

[gparis]

how else to pass a variable in mc2 from mc1?

mc1.somevar = mc2.someothervar;

if the variable doesn't have a var prefix, ie: if its scope isn't restrained to the function's scope, there shouldn't be a problem. You could also in the 1st MCL's onLoadInit give the mc2 variable a value, or even set it there.

That said, there cannot be an onLoadInit without a MCL, specially if you are not loading anything a second time around. So i suggest you follow the above solution.

gparis

[jonis56]

Originally Posted by gparis

how else to pass a variable in mc2 from mc1?

mc1.somevar = mc2.someothervar;

if the variable doesn't have a var prefix, ie: if its scope isn't restrained to the function's scope, there shouldn't be a problem. You could also in the 1st MCL's onLoadInit give the mc2 variable a value, or even set it there.

That said, there cannot be an onLoadInit without a MCL, specially if you are not loading anything a second time around. So i suggest you follow the above solution.

gparis

Oh my god... thank you my friend i didn't know this in bold. i have just tried it and it works