LoadMovie (SWF) into an MC, then how to get rid of it?

[secretw]

OK Gurus...

My Flash™ is approaching 29 MB, and my SWF is 4 MB so right now I'll just have to give code examples...

I'm not a programmer, but I fould some ActionScipting that would help load external SWFs.

This is the code that I got from Flashkit... I think it creates an empty MC, then loads the external SWF into it. With the exception of this annoying "Output" screen that I don't want, it works.

********BEGIN CODE*********

function preload(url, n)
{
this.createEmptyMovieClip("controller_mc", 1);
loadMovieNum(url, n);
controller_mc.onEnterFrame = function()
{
if(mc == undefined)
{
var mc = eval("_level" + n);
}
var bl = mc.getBytesLoaded();
var bt = mc.getBytesTotal();

if (bt > 0) { // if the movie has started loading
var percentage = Math.round(bl / bt * 100);
trace(percentage);
if (bl >= bt) {
// the movie has finished loading
// position it
mc._x = 400;
mc._y = 200;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
// delete the method
}
}
};
}
preload("swfs/250x250_nissan_sttsvll.swf", 2);

********END CODE*********

However, Now I have a button (separate instance) that I want to clear this Movie or MC... can someone help with this?

Thanks in advance... someone of the work you folks do out there is simply amazing.

C

[marshdabeachy]

unloadMovieNum

BTW, that code doesn't load the SWF into a movieclip, it loads it into a new level. (There's a difference.) If you were loading it into a movieclip, you could have just used removeMovieClip().

[secretw]

Thanks MarshdaBeachy

But I'm looking for a direct answer to the code.. I'm not a programmer by any stretch... not to say I don't appreciate your reponse! It's just that looking at code doesn't give me a clue as to what I'm needing.

Is there a working example out there of (simple - for stupid folks like me) code that does this:

1. loads an external SWF
2. allows you to place this external SWF anywhere on the work space
3. and a button that will allow you to remove said external file.

I have about 44 external SWF files that I want to load into a main SWF.

Thanks folks.

[marshdabeachy]

Ok, did you want to be able to load multiple movies at once, or did you want the newest loaded movie to overwrite the old movie?