Newbie. Need help with external swf files and pathing

[cjrollo]

Hi everyone, thanks in advance to anyone who can help,
My problem is that I have a main file which loads external swfs into a mc, one of these swfs has more buttons which are meant to load more external swfs in to a second mc, now it's not working. The button movieclip won't work and the external file won't load, it's probably a path problem but I don't know how to path.
So the main timeline is on fla file called "leather5a.swf" which has a mc container called "containerone_mc" and into this goes an external file called "collectionsb.swf". On the last frame of collectionb.swf is

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_root.containerone_mc.loadMovie(_root.currMovie+".swf");

In this swf is a mc container called "containertwo_mc" and mc buttons. On an invisible button over one of these mc buttons is this AS

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on (rollOver) {
_parent.mouse_over_purses_mc = true;
}

on (rollOut) {
_parent.mouse_over_purses_mc = fstartlse;
}


on (release) {

if (_parent.currMovie == undefined) {

_parent.currMovie = "purses";
containertwo_mc.loadMovie("purses.swf");
} else if (_parent.currMovie != "purses") {
if (containertwo_mc._currentframe >= containertwo_mc.midframe) {

_parent.currMovie = "purses";
containertwo_mc.play();

}

}

}

And on the AS layer is the code for this button

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_parent.purses_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (mouse_over_purses_mc) {
_parent.purses_mc.nextFrame();
} else {
_parent.purses_mc.prevFrame();
}
};

Then into containertwo_mc goes "purses.swf" and on the last frame of the AS layer of purses.swf goes this

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_root.containertwo_mc.loadMovie(_root.currMovie+".swf");

obviously I know _root and _parent is wrong but I don't know what to put in. If anyone can tell me I would really appreciate it as I cannot find any tutorials explaining this point.
Thanks, rollo

[Steve Mellor]

It would be really helpful if you could post the fla files so I could see what you're describing. I tend to use relative paths for flash work since the code is often usable in other areas as well and it saves having to edit all of your paths again. Just my personal preference though.

I'm afraid I am not sure at what point you are getting the problem (and in which script) but I did see the following.

Where you have:

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_root.containertwo_mc.loadMovie(_root.currMovie+".swf");

the root is leather5a.swf which contains containerone_mc. containerone_mc contains containertwo_mc, is that right?

If so, to reference containertwo_mc from the root you would need to use the following code.

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_root.containerone_mc.containertwo_mc.loadMovie(_root.currMovie+".swf");

Or, you should be able to use:

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_parent.containertwo_mc.loadMovie(_root.currMovie+".swf");

It occurs to me that you seam to have currMovie as something used at every level. I would suggest looking at it as a global variable. They're easy to define, just use

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_global.currMovie = [insert value here];

and from then on you can refer to the variable as currMovie no matter which level you are on. That's been handy for me a few times but of course it might not be useful to you depending on the rest of the project

As for the rest of the script, I was a little unsure as to which level each one was on so I'm not sure if the paths are correct.

[cjrollo]

Hi just got in and found your message, thanks for responding,
The structure is like this
leather5a.fla - main timeline
has in it an empty mc container
containerone-mc
in this goes various external swf files. One of them is called
collectionsb.swf
in this are more buttons and another empty mc container called
containertwo_mc
in to this go various external swf files such as purses.swf
Which files do you want me to post up
How about collectionsb.fla and purses.fla
I can send the leather5a.fla but i just need to do some cleaning up and simplifiying before so it makes more sense cause it's a bit messy.
So what do ya say?