Having to dynamically load in playing card to movie causing problems.

Hi,

I am developing a movie where a player is able to click on any one of 3 cards to initially turn the card over to reveal the type and number of the card & then to turn the card back over to just show the back.

To keep thing simple we will just say that the movie now consists of one card that can then be clicked on to turn (the attached fla is an example of this.)

In the “host” movie I have a 2 frame clip set up with an author time generated “back” graphic in frame 1 and a holding clip to load in the dynamically generated “card face” on frame 2. There is also a script in the main movie that takes care of the transition from the “back” of the card to the “front”

My initial problem was that I had to load the “card face” in every time the card was clicked & the Flash player got to frame 2 where the holding clip for the “face” graphic was situated. In other words the clip would not allow me to just load the movie in the once, it had to be done every time the card was turned. If I didn’t do that you would just see the holding graphic when the card went back from frame 1 to frame 2.

I thought the best way round this & to avoid any loading issues, as cards have to be loaded into clips that are in the process of revolving & any delay in loading the cards in will cause problems, was to first load in the card “faces” when the movie loaded & then use them with “attachMovie().” However I now understand that it is not possible to use “attachMovie()” with dynamically loaded content.

So I’m now stuck with what I imagine is my only option, to load the cards dynamically on every user click & sort out the possible loading delays in some way.

Has anyone got any other options or advice on this.

Many thanks

Pup100

As an alternative...
Make the card a single frame. Move the pic layer content to the first frame. Change the back of the card graphic to a movie clip (instance name bg). Load the card faces before starting. Now instead of changing frames, change the visibility of the bg movieclip.

Code:

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_root.card1.foolHold_mc.loadMovie("jack.swf");
card1.onPress = function() {
        spd = Math.abs(spd);
        this._xscale = 99;
        this.onEnterFrame = function() {
                this._xscale -= spd;
                if (this._xscale <= 0) {
                        this._xscale = 0;
                        this.bg._visible = !this.bg._visible;
                        spd *= -1;
                } else if (this._xscale >= 100) {
                        this._xscale = 100;
                        delete this.onEnterFrame;
                }
        };
};

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Many thanks for your help dawsonk.

It was a hard enough job reading through & understanding my original post, let alone coming up with a solution!

I haven’t had a chance to try out the fix as of yet but will do so tonight & let you know tomorrow if there are any problems if that is alright?

Thanks again mate.

Pup100

Your a geeeenius dawsonk!

I only had a chance to take a quick look at the fix during the course of the week, but managed to really sit down with it & get it all working today & it worked like a dream!

Thank you again!