Unloading a movie

[xtian1572]

Hey, I loaded a swf into a target, and I am trying to make a button that unloads itself from the target. I want to do this because when I load the swf into a target on my main swf, I lose control of all of the buttons on my main swf. I think it has something to do with the fact that the swf I'm loading has a drag action(rotating car)......anyways, can someone help me? Thanks.

[mraspiller]

Huh?


Post the code you used to load the SWF...

[xtian1572]

loadMovie("Rotating_interior.swf", "_root.excursion.interior");
stop();

[oldnewbie]

_level0.myMovieClip.unloadMovie();

[xtian1572]

That didn't work. I'm not loading my swf in levels, I'm loading it into a target....but I want to unload it by calling a script from within itself. Is that possible??

[oldnewbie]

Replace "myMovieClip" with your target's instance name!

[milosav]

Hi xtian1572,

Hmmm.

I just put together these files ...

A mainMovie.swf which loads in an external .swf
which has a drag action attached to it. The main
movie also has a button.

In this example the button on the main _level0
timeline does not stop working when the dragable
Movie is loaded in.

Maybe your problem is not where you think it is.

Also keep in mind that unloadMovie() has been known
to "sometimes" crash the Flash player if the Movie you
are trying to unload is still loading.

The alternative method of unloading a Movie is to load
a single frame "blank" .swf (less than 1Kb) into your
movie clip instance. ie:

loadMovie("blank.swf","container");

I prefer this to a possible fatal crash.

Anyway here are the .fla files ... they are really
simple.

Milosav

[oldnewbie]

OR...

[xtian1572]

Yeah...I think you're right. My problem lies in the secondary swf that I am loading into the instance. It is a rotating car that is draggable, But I lose control of all of the buttons in main swf. Maybe you can take a look at the attached file?? (I deleted the actual artwork due to the large file size)