loading seperate swf files into one swf with a container.. numerous problems!

first of all is there a more official name for a 'flash container' ? because very little results come up when i try and search for answers!

can you load a container within a container, i'm thinking no but would like to clear that up also!

for example i've followed this tutorial http://kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/hover_captions.htm however when loaded up in a container nothing appears in the mouse over effect.. i've also tried loading jpegs into a swf via an xml which again works fine until i load it up within a container and nothing appears... there must be a simple solution right..?!

thanks!!

Could you be abit more specific? It's hard understanding your question, sorry :(

http://www.arisafukumoto.com each page on this site is a separate swf file that is loaded into a container which is surrounded by the menu in another swf file..

so what i want to know is if you can load a swf within a container and then load that container within another container...

and if there is a way of making the container compatible with other things such as that mouse over hover effect.. because when displayed as a separate swf it works fine but when displaying it within a container in another swf the mouse over effect doesn't work

Okay, I am still really confused >.<

Okay, say you have a movieclip. You load a SWF file into it, and then you want to load another SWF file, inside the loaded SWF file??

Btw, your site is not working :/
Checked mainmovie.swf, says it doesn't exist!

yea i'm not sure what is going on with that site, http://arisafukumoto.com/ works just not with the www. at the moment.

ok that is what i meant yea, but i'm fairly certain you can't do that! haha but anyway that isn't overly important, my main issue is that using a container (just the one) renders various functions in the loaded swf useless!

Yepp, found out - I am not familiar with those _level0 tags, but you have to use those instead of _root when using loaded SWFs. But, anyways, if you want to keep things simple, remove all _root tags from your loaded SWFs, and replace them with this, _parent or something similar, which still makes them functional - talking about AS2!

ok i'm not entirely sure what you mean now haha

Okay, lol :P

Well, the SWF files you are going to load - what actionscript do they contain? Look for any _root in the SWF files that are going to be loaded. Did you find any?

yea found _root in the mouse over one

Actionscript Code:

b2.useHandCursor = false;
b3.useHandCursor = false;
b4.useHandCursor = false;
b5.useHandCursor = false;
b6.useHandCursor = false;
b7.useHandCursor = false;
b8.useHandCursor = false;
b9.useHandCursor = false;
b10.useHandCursor = false;
b11.useHandCursor = false;


b1.onRollOver = function() {

captionFN(true, "credit 1", this);
this.onRollOut = function() {

captionFN(false);

};

};
b2.onRollOver = function() {

captionFN(true, "credit 2", this);
this.onRollOut = function() {

captionFN(false);

};

};
b3.onRollOver = function() {

captionFN(true, "credit 3", this);
this.onRollOut = function() {

captionFN(false);

};

};
b4.onRollOver = function() {

captionFN(true, "credit 4", this);
this.onRollOut = function() {

captionFN(false);

};

};
b5.onRollOver = function() {

captionFN(true, "credit 5", this);
this.onRollOut = function() {

captionFN(false);

};

};
b6.onRollOver = function() {

captionFN(true, "credit 6", this);
this.onRollOut = function() {

captionFN(false);

};

};
b7.onRollOver = function() {

captionFN(true, "credit 7", this);
this.onRollOut = function() {

captionFN(false);

};

};
b8.onRollOver = function() {

captionFN(true, "credit 8", this);
this.onRollOut = function() {

captionFN(false);

};

};
b9.onRollOver = function() {

captionFN(true, "credit 9", this);
this.onRollOut = function() {

captionFN(false);

};

};
b10.onRollOver = function() {

captionFN(true, "credit 10", this);
this.onRollOut = function() {

captionFN(false);

};

};
b11.onRollOver = function() {

captionFN(true, "credit 11", this);
this.onRollOut = function() {

captionFN(false);

};

};
captionFN = function (showCaption, captionText, bName) {

if (showCaption) {

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("hoverCaption", this.getNextHighestDepth());
cap.desc.text = captionText;
cap._width = 7*cap.desc.text.length;
cap._alpha = 75;
//
if ((bName._width+bName._x+cap._width)>Stage.width) {

xo = -2-cap._width;
yo = -17;

} else {

xo = 2;
yo = -17;

}
hoverCaption.onEnterFrame = function() {

cap._x = _root._xmouse+xo;
cap._y = _root._ymouse+yo;
cap._visible = true;

};

} else {

delete hoverCaption.onEnterFrame;
cap._visible = false;

}

};

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("hoverCaption", this.getNextHighestDepth());

just remove the _root, so it looks like this:

createEmptyMovieClip("hoverCaption", this.getNextHighestDepth());

That should do the trick ;)

_root goes to the root level of the movie, and since you are loading SWF inside another one, the root level is the SWF you are loading all those files into - and therefore, you've got to change _root to something else ;)

Hope this helps :D

awesome that does the trick! however with one solution comes another problem! the swf that is loaded into the container has a scrollpane within it and that scrollpane loads another swf.. when you scroll the pictures the mouseover thing changes place.. how can i set it so it is where the cursor is? i'll upload an example now

http://arisafukumoto.com/new/gallery1.html

I'd like to see the .fla if you'd be so kind?

http://www.arisafukumoto.com/new/gallery1.fla
http://www.arisafukumoto.com/new/images1.fla

Sorry, I do not have that version? Maybe save it as an older version?

ok try the links again!

Here are the fixed files:

http://www.pridspeed.com/flash/gallery1.fla
http://www.pridspeed.com/flash/images1.fla

What I basically did, was to create the caption from inside the Gallery, to the Flash Movie where the Gallery is being loaded, so that it's not affected by the ScrollPane!

Hope this help ya ;)
Anything else? :D

was trying to figure out what you changed, was it just sending it all to _root?

ok well while we are on a roll..! when the scrollpane is loaded into the container upon click the scroll tracker a thin lime green border appears around the scrollpane!

Well, I didn't just change it all to _root, lol xD
I moved the Caption from the gallery, to the Container Flash movie, and yeah, changed all to _root, so that the Caption, which will be on the root level when running the Container Flash movie, will be generated there - all the codes will be aimed to it :D

Lime green border? I don't see it - could you send a Print Screen? I kinda changed the name of the .swf that is being loaded in the ScrollPane, maybe that's the problem?

a before and after

Sorry, I don't know what the problem is. And lol, sorry for the late reply, I didn't see Page 2 xD

managed to get rid of the green border!

so since you've solved the problem i had by removing _root from bits of code i've been fiddling with various other things i had tried and that had failed and due to removing _root it has solved some! but in the process given me more problems haha.

ok here are the files..

http://www.arisafukumoto.com/new/mainmovie.fla
http://www.arisafukumoto.com/new/gallery1.fla
http://www.arisafukumoto.com/new/images1.fla

so my new plan was to have the images loaded from a folder as jpegs to make things load up quicker and the swf file smaller.. this seems to work fine and i've made the buttons which create the mouseover caption thing transparent.. however the scrollpane it is loaded into seems to be completely random I can keep publishing the swf and it produces different results each time without having made any changes! been going round in circles! haha

Okay, the only problem I see, is that the scroller is not visible in your Main Page, nothing else - to solve that, I'd rather put the ScrollPane in your mainmovie, and then load images1 in it, and put the whole thing inside a movieclip, and make it invisible, and when clicked on the Gallery Button, make it visible!

What do you mean by it's random each time you publish the swf Õ.Ô?

Btw, are you japanese?

I meant that when i've refreshed it the scrollbar is either there or not there and when it is there it doesn't always show the same amount of pictures in the pane... mainly the last picture is either missing or only partly there.

i'm not japanese but my friend who i did the site for is, i don't really know that much about flash but she wants this update done by next weekend so i'm freaking out! haha.

ok i've moved the scrollpane to be directly inside the mainmovie but i'm not sure why the scrollbar is now no longer appearing!

It wasn't appearing at all for me, either way :/

Anyways, trying to make my own scrollbar. If I succeed, maybe things will get easier :D

well if this is any help, i found this when trying to find one for loading external jpegs and it has an actionscript scrollbar in it..

http://www.arisafukumoto.com/new/oma...end-source.zip

I somehow managed to find a scrollbar on the net (was really difficult), and somehow managed to make a working one :S
My brain is not working right now to think how to make one xD

NEW GALLERY FILE

I hope this works for you ;)

now lost the caption thing with that scrollbar! haha

It's working here, the Caption thing. Maybe you altered your images file, here use this one and see if things work again:

IMAGES

Btw, why are you in haste? Is it really important to finish the website? Just curious ^^

yea captions still isn't working for me! haha :(

she wants the update ready for next friday and i work sunday to friday so today is my only real free day to try and get it done!

wait scrap that! just didn't add the '_new' to the images link in the as! works wonderfully! :D thank you!!

argh, those captions are a pain the ass :P

I'll try and see if I can make my own, lol xD

Anyways, why the rush? Is there something important next Friday?

Oh, great, lol :)

she is displaying stuff at this event http://www.hyperjapan.co.uk/event-20...-showcase.html

Oh, sound cool :D

Everything working smoothly - no more problems, I hope, lol?