load commands

[acrikey]

At the moment I have two swf files and on a button down it changed the url. Doing it this way you get the page reloading, is there a way that the on load command can load a new swf file seamlessly or do I have to do it another way. If you can help please let me know the best way of achieving this.

My swf's are of a van, the button controls the hazard warning lights, (four way indicators). You press the btn once and the hazards come on, press again they go off, button changes from of to on. At present I go it through url control but it looks unprofessional.

[Sgaspar11]

Hmmm, this might be possible. I have an initial idea of how this might be accomplished but I need to do some testing.

Are your buttons within the flash file? Or on the HTML page? If they are within the .swf there is an easy solution.

If they are on the HTML page it may take a little more thinking...

Let me know.

[acrikey]

They are all in the swf file. If you want to see it, I'll PM it to you

[Sgaspar11]

If you want to PM it to me sure...

All this would involve is loading external .swfs into the flash file.

So you have your Van...and your seperate .swf with the flashing lights...

Create an blank movie clip, insert it onto the stage(nothing will show up) and give it an instance name of "shell"

On your button it would look something like:

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on (release)
{
 shell.loadmovie("lights.swf", 0);
}

You could then use the code on the OFF button to unload said movie using the unloadMovie command.

EDIT: You can then position the externally loaded .swf by adjusting the X and Y coordinates of the shell like this: (this goes below the load movie line.)

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shell._x = 0;
shell._y = 0;

Adjust the X and Y values accordingly knowing that 0,0 is the top left corner.

Hope this helps,

Scott

[acrikey]

It's made in 2.0

[Sgaspar11]

Perfect, AS2.0 is your friend.....for now.

[acrikey]

When I do as you suggested above it throughs up error messages, like, actions can only be put on buttons, when I created the new layer and put the shell. bla bla bla

[alexgeek]

i think that's as 3.0

[Sgaspar11]

You're still having that same issue? as the last couple posts? I thought we got all that figured out! Yes that is an AS3 error...:-)

[acrikey]

But i'm using AS 2.0 with this one not 3.0

[alexgeek]

are you sure, if your're using flash cs3, it's the default

[acrikey]

very sure