How do you load and move playhead in another level..

[peetawalka]

I need a button on level 1 to load a movie on level 2 and when it loads place the playhead at frame 10.

I have tried the simple method of

on (release) {
loadMovieNum("movie.swf", 2);
_level2.gotoAndPlay(10);
}

but the PLAY command is executed before the movie is loaded so the playhead just starts at frame 1.

I have also tried a movieclip but it's not efficient due to varying system performance.

How can I make the second command wait for the movie to fully load on the level then send it to frame 10

Thanks

[Fraggs]

Have you tried using the setInterval script?

code:

---

setInterval(10);

---

Time is in seconds.

Regards,

[piXelhouse]

getBytesLoaded()

and

getBytesTotal()

should work for your purposes

Christian

[peetawalka]

Thanks for the assistance. However, I'm not sure how to apply the suggested commands as I'm not Flash trained and don't know scripting. I need to know how the complete script has to be to make it work. Thanks

[peetawalka]

The attached zip file contains the a test fla sorce of what I am trying to achieve. You will see how I have tried the suggested scripts but still with no success.

[peetawalka]

I still haven't figured this out. I have done some resarch at Macromedia but still no progress, mainly because there was nothing which specifically addressed the issue.

[Fraggs]

Slap the setInterval code between your code lines and it will wait for X seconds (where X is an interger) and then it will execute the next line after that time period has passed.

Regards,