loadmovie/unloadmovie prob

[kcbobacey]

Ok- i have successfully linked between my .swf files. they load and unload i guess. but there were two probs. one is that every time it loads the next movie there is a flash of my first movie in there. do i need a preloader before each or something or before the first movie? i really have no idea. i have never done a preloader. i want it to be a smooth transition with no waiting or flashing of my first movie.

the second problem is in one of my movies i have 2 continous scrollbars on the main timeline and they don't work in that movie when you click your way through my series of movies. if you open just that specific .swf file on its own- then they work. i don't get it? i'm looking at making different scrollbars now- controllable ones from your tutorials to see if that will work. help would be greatly appreciated thanks! you guys are great- i check this site almost daily.

laters-
kc

[Ricod]

Its a bit unclear ... maybe if we saw it ?

[kcbobacey]

http://xena.imumg.uiowa.edu/safetywebsite/

if you go to this directory and drag off the swf files into a folder and open them in flash player you'll see what i mean. sorry i was so vague. i just have to give you a few instructions though because its a work in progress. you open office.swf first and click on the door on your left. then it should take you to hallway.swf and you click on the first door titled safety services and that should take you to the safety services movie. then click on the first square for the safe zone page and that takes you to the safe zone movie. this movie and the safety zone one both have scrollbars that don't work in the series. if you play them individually the scrollbars work. the squares on the bottom right are a horizontal scrollbar. and there's a text one in the center on the safe zone page. so let me know what you think i should do. tell me if you see the flash frames of the first office movie in between each movie. maybe it changes when you embed it in html -- i don't know. this is my first all flash website. i'm doing it for my job at the university and am stumped. thanks for your time.

later tator-
kc

[kcbobacey]

hi, i don't know if anyone has looked at all my stuff or not-i know its a lot of work to look over and stuff. but i think i fixed the problem i was having where it was showing a frame of m first movie between loading movies, it had something to do with the levels which still confuses me however. but the probs i'm having now are that it won't load the last movie when you click on the button. and the object scrollbar won't work. i hope someone can find the time to help me or just explain levels and loading movies.
thanks-
kc

[Ricod]

I believe tg explained it in detail on another thread. Look in the general help section and open the thread named loading level or sumthing like that. Its pretty high in the list.

[kcbobacey]

ok i figured out how to load a movie from a movie using

on(release){
loadMovieNum("themoviename.swf", 0);
}

this works. but i want it to go to the next frame and play out a transition int hat movie before loading the next. so i tried

on(release){
nextFrame();
loadMovieNum("themoviename.swf", 0);
}

and

on(release){
gotoAndPlay(2);
loadMovieNum("themoviename.swf", 0);

}

none of these worked. it just automatically jumps to the next movie.

let me know what ya think?

kc again

[Ricod]

How about u just put the gotoAndPlay() in the button so it plays the transition, and the loadMovieNum() on the last frame of the transition ? :)

[kcbobacey]

hey-- thanks a lot. you're brilliant! i can't believe i didn't think of that. ok- i'm almost home free. i have only one more problem. I have a dynamic scrolling text field on my last movie and the text isn;t appearing on the web. the only thing that appears is

<P ALIGN = "LEFT"></P>

I pretty much learned my scrollbar from one of your tutorials called

Scrolling Text (dynamic/static/loaded and HTML)

its exactly like that- i went back and chose the HTML box for the text, but that didn't do it.

my code on my up button says thiss

on(rollOver) {
_root.up = true;
}
on(press, release, releaseOutside,rollOut, dragOut) {
_root.up = false;
}

[kcbobacey]

hey my message got cut off for some reason. i was also going to tell you the code on my movie clip that goes on the main stage--

if (_root.up) {
_root.text.scroll += 1;
} else if (_root.down) {
_root.text.scroll -= 1;
}
gotoAndPlay (1);


then there's a frame action in the main stage of

text = "bladdy bladdy"

the "text" variable is for my text box that scrolls.

i actually just went back to that tutorial that i mentioned earlier today twice and the first time it gave me the same html message that i get <P ALIGN = "LEFT"></P> and then just now i went to it and it worked--the text was scrolling.

i don't get it.

thanks again--
kc

[Ricod]

If u get the literal text "<P ALIGN = "LEFT"></P>", that would mean that your textbox isn't set to html, but u are loading in html.

Make sure when u change something, that the cache is clear, else your browser will use the old version. F5 will usually do it, but sometimes it requeres that u remove all the temporary internet files.

[kcbobacey]

thanks a lot!! no more problems at least for a day--i swear!

[Ricod]

No problems for an entire day ? :confused: Thats some computer u have ! :) Oughta get myself one of those !