SWF within a SWF within a SWF... Help...

[Keeldog]

Ok, here's my problem. I'm trying to load a .swf into a moveClip, which contains the content of a selected page. This works fine.

What isn't working is this: When the content loads, I want to load into it some animation (in a smaller movieClip). The animation is pretty large, so I don't want to make the user wait forever while both the text and the animation loads.

Unfortunately, the internal movieClip never loads when I simulate a download. When I just test the movie, it works fine. I don't know what to do. I'm almost positive I have the correct path to the empty movieclip...

Check out what I'm doing at www.thekeelings.org/audible
The page I'm talking about is the "Contact" page, at the bottom, below the second orange dotted line

Thanks

[Keeldog]

Code:
this.mc_bottom_graphics.loadMovie("contact_example s.swf");

[MrMadison]

Well...Try the Loader component if your in Flash 8 and just set the content path. It saves a little time and takes little, if any, code.
If your not in Flash 8....
Try and make that "almost positive" into a completely positive.

[JacobHaug]

hmmm, seems like he answered his own question already...lol

[MrMadison]

uhhhhhhhh..................lol
*runs away

Maybe....maybe not...the world may never know.

[Keeldog]

Thanx for the input gents! Yes, I did figure it out this afternoon. The problem was a preloader I was using on the bottom content.

I had made reference to a variable in the _root file, rather than the _parent SWF.

I guess I do have another question though. Is it too outrageous to have those bottom animations on the "Contact" page? I would like that portion to load faster, but reducing image size and quality is not really an option I'd like to use.

Any suggestions?

[Sgaspar11]

Personally, I doubt anyone would wait that long to view what is there on the contact page. It took quite a while to load since it was 2 megs. By that time I could have wrote down your contact information 3-4 times.

I'd say reduce the file size or just take it out.

My 2 cents,

Scott

[Keeldog]

Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. Sort of a long time to wait just for eye-candy. Maybe I'll just put in some small still pics or something.

Thanks for the feedback

[Sgaspar11]

Yeah I'd do a couple static images to eliminate any loading and so on. You could even set it up to display random images from an array of 10-15 or something like that if you want. Wouldn't do much to file size and a nice effect.

[Keeldog]

That sounds cool. Where can I find out how to do this?

[Sgaspar11]

Here is some information about arrays:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/array.htm

Here is the function to randomize your array:

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// Here is a simple function for randomizing the array
function randomsort(a, b) {
        return Math.random()>.5 ? -1 : 1;
}
//usage example
var array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
array.sort(randomsort);
trace(array);
//traces 4,3,1,5,2

What I did when I created a card matching game that radomized the card postions and graphics on each card was to put all of that data into an xml document and to call the xml doc into flash and put it into an array, then randomize, then display.

Hopefully this will start you in the right direction. :-)