How to make a level invisible ?

[nebraska]

Hi,

I try to load a swf movie and make it invidsible until an "on (press)" event but it doesn t work.

This what I wrote on the first frame of my main scene:
loadMovieNum ("carte.swf",3);
_level3._visible=false;

But the movie loaded is visible all the time, how can I do?

[JHallam]

Well just use this:


loadMovieNum ("carte.swf",3);
_level3.carte.swf._visible=false;


That should work fine

[nebraska]

still doesn't work. I really don't understans why. Any other suggestions??
NE

[Tink]

_level3._visible = false;
your first piece of code should work.

what level is the code on? and is that level definately loaded?


BLEEDs

[nebraska]

it doesn't bleeda,

The code appears on the first frame of the animation I try to load and is on level 0.

The code you gave was the same i used before and it does not work, that's very strange...

[pinkaboo]

Bleeda's advice should definitely work, are you positive that you have anything on _level3? I don't mean to sound funny but are you getting confused with layers and levels by any chance?
Double check that you actually have anything loaded onto _level3, if that fails, try posting your fla as a zip file here for peeps to have a look at for you :P

[Tink]

if the code appears on the first frame of _level0, then surely there isn't a _level3???

what frame on _level0 do u load _level3. thats where u want the _visible code

BLEEDs

[pinkaboo]

hmm, yeah it's because the _level3._visible bit is being actioned before _level3 has finished loading in. I just tried to check this by putting a variable into a loaded file on _level3

(_level0.loaded == "yesIhave")

and then sticking a mc onto the main timeline which checks to see if that variable is present and then makes _level3 invisible:


onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_level0.loaded == "yesIhave") {
_level3._visible = false;
}
}



that worked so it's a matter of getting it to load first.

The code appears on the first frame of the animation I try to load and is on level 0.
Now I'm confused cos I was going to say how about sticking

_level3._visible = false;

into the first frame of your loaded movie, but do you mean that you have tried that already? I just did a test swf and that worked, but maybe my test wasn't weighty enough and loaded too quickly?