help with "loadMovie"

[MarkSensei]

Im wondering now, how can I use the loadMovie to load a movie onto an MC that has been loaded onto another....do you follow? for example MC_A loads MC_B, then MC_B loads MC_C, all of which are to be visible at the same time.

I thought about using the attachMovie because with it you can give the new MC a variable name, but it didnt work....

it looked like this
on(release){
_root.stage1.attachMovie("_What.swf", "what", 1);
}

so I decided to try using "loadMovie"

any advice would be much appreciated!

Mark

[ukspudnie]

Hi Mark...

If i remember rightly... u need to tell the new swf where to load.. which clip it is nested into..
as in

on(release){
MC_A.attachMovie("MC_B.swf", "MC_B", getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:Pos, _y:Pos});
}

^^ if already in Lib

on(release){
MC_A.loadMovie("MC_B.swf", "MC_B", getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:Pos, _y:Pos});
}

^^ if external.. don't quote me on that one though..

That "should" attach the movie Clip "MC_B.swf" to a layer above MC_A the position you set with the x and y...

using getNextHighestDepth is a good method for making sure the mc's are added to an higher depth.. u could if u know ur depths... 3 instead of that method..but that's ur choice to make.

hope that helped a wee bit.

Andy

[ryantsi]

if you want to load a movie into a nested MC you have to make sure all of your MCs have intance names, so lets say we have 2 clips, labeled clip1 and clip2. clip2 is nested inside clip1. use something like this.

//loading a clip into clip2
_root.clip1.clip2.loadMovie("yourmovie.swf")

Hope that helps

[MarkSensei]

I got it! actually it was simple....just tired I guess.
I overlooked the fact that the first MC is loaded onto a "stage" MC so when loading the 3rd MC it would need the first stage instange in the path aswell.

on(release){
_root.stage1.stage2.loadMovie("blah_mc.swf", 1):
}

but thank you for taking your time to help out!


Mark