prob loading external swf in main stage. bugs?

[tronicscribe]

here is the zip with all the files needed: url removed. solved :P

I'm using CS3 and AS2. I never had this problem with flash 8, so I'm not sure if I'm overlooking something new in CS3. anyway, I have my main movie, and I have an empty vid clip that I use to load external swf files into when a user clicks on a button or something. sounds pretty simple, but for some odd reason my external swf doesn't load completely. I have text and an image, both as graphic symbols, and only the text will load. I can't imagine what is causing this. I hope someone has come across this before and knows what i'm doing wrong. I have a feeling this is a bug in CS3, because I find it has trouble loading images that are inside an external swf, despite that swf file if opened alone, will show the images and text.

[atomic]

Select your content movie clip on stage, and check it's properties...

It's Color box is set to alpha, and the alpha is set at 0%!

Up it to 100%, and it works fine...

By the way content is a reserved word in Flash, you should change it to something else...

[tronicscribe]

ah yes, I failed to notice that. thanks a tone! I'm so sorry it turned out to be such as simple solution that I overlooked probably a hundred times. however, just one question about that. if the alpha was set to 0%, how come the text was still shoing up? shouldn't nothing be able to show up? thanks again. :D

[atomic]

Shouldn't nothing be able to show up?

Nope! Text since the font used (can't check it because I delete your file...) was most probably not embedded, or you used a device font, and text then is not affected by setting the container alpha to 0%.

That said, it may now seem like a simple solution, but I did spend at least 20 minutes trying to find it out, because I also overlooked it for quite a while, until I used my own new container and it worked, thus I suspected that something was wrong in your holder...

[tronicscribe]

I see, that's right, I did not embed the text. well I really thank you for taking your time to help me out. This is one more thing I have now learned to double check in flash.

[atomic]

Grrrrrreat! ;)