positioning a mc with onLoadComplete

Hi,

I'm loading a swf into an mc on the stage. After it's loaded I want to center it on stage. I'm doing something like this:

Code:

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maintimeline = this;
mainMC.onResize = function() {
        this._x = (Stage.width+this._width)/4;
        this._y = (Stage.height+this._height)/4;
};
Stage.addListener(mainMC);
maintimeline.mainMC.onResize();
//
var mainMCloader = new MovieClipLoader();
mainMClistener = new Object();
mainMClistener.onLoadComplete = function() {
        updateAfterEvent;
        maintimeline.mainMC.onResize();
};
mainMCloader.addListener(mainMClistener);
mainMCloader.loadClip("main.swf", maintimeline.mainMC);

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The problem is that, even while I'm using onLoadComplete, Flash thinks that the mainMC._width = 0. It is only, when I make the timeline play a couple of frames that mainMC._width finally results in the real size (the one of the loaded swf).

What I'm I doing wrong???

Cheers

anyone?

try using onLoadInit instead of onLoadComplete.

onLoadComplete executes before the loaded movieClip is initialised and so you do not have access to its methods and properties etc. onLoadInit executes when the movie has finished loading and has initialised.

That helped, thanx! Somehow I though that onLoadComplete was trggered when the load was completed and onLoadInit was triggered when the load initiated... :yikes:

One more question though. I want to position the mc onLoadInit but I can't seem to call the function correctly...

Code:

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maintimeline = this;
maintimeline.mainMC.onResize = function() {
        trace(this._width);
};
//
var mainMCloader = new MovieClipLoader();
mainMClistener = new Object();
mainMClistener.onLoadInit = function() {
// going wrong here I think...
        maintimeline.mainMC.onResize();
};
mainMCloader.addListener(mainMClistener);
mainMCloader.loadClip("ain.swf", maintimeline.mainMC);

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Any clues on this?

Cheers

Found it thanx anyway :)

Code:

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var mainMCloader = new MovieClipLoader();
mainMClistener = new Object();
mainMClistener.onLoadInit = function() {
        mainMC.onResize = function() {
                this._x = (Stage.width-this._width)/2;
                this._y = (Stage.height-this._height)/2;
        };
        Stage.addListener(mainMC);
        maintimeline.mainMC.onResize();
};
mainMCloader.addListener(mainMClistener);
mainMCloader.loadClip("main.swf", maintimeline.mainMC);

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