UI loader & Transitions

[emlesnick]

Ok first off thanks in advance. I'm a frustrated man. Let me just set the stage..
I'm trying to figure out how the big boys get the really cool transitions inbetween pages in the flash site templates. I'm sure there's more than one way. I stumbled along the fl.transitions and realize that it might be what i'm looking for. Mess around with that, and am able to figure out how to transition MC. Now I figure I can load the "pages" using the UI loader and give it a definition name in the properties inspector, set the souce to a variable calling on .swfs, defined by the buttons, and transition the UI Loader and be the magic man. Somewhere something has gone horribly wrong.
when I try to transition the UI Loader by name just like a regular mc I get:
[COLOR="Blue"]1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type fl.containers:UILoader to an unrelated type flash.display:MovieClip.

Can I use fl.transitions on the UI Loader?
Do I have to define it as something else first and if so how?
Is this even the right way to go about setting up page transitions?
Thanks sooooo much

[drumkeyjw]

I saw an Adobe eSeminar in which the guy used UI Loader. I created this file from that eSeminar. I think it might be what you're looking for.

In the file, I use "Strong.easeOut" for the Tween right now. Of course you can change that from "Strong" to "Bounce", "Elastic", etc. for different effects.

I hope this helps.

http://www.artillerymedia.com/UILoader.zip

-drumkeyjw

[emlesnick@mac.com]

Thanks i'm taking a look right now. This at least gives me a place to start driving myself crazy. It's going to take me a couple of days looking at it to make any sense of it at all but it'll be a great learning tool for me, thanks so much!! It seems to me that the new movie just transitions in on top of the old movie. I'm going to attempt to adjust it so that the current movie transitions out and then the new one in. I'm having a problem because in all the tests that I've done so far after the swf transitions out it pops back up onto the screen. Anyways, thanks a milion