External swf loaded into holder not repositioning

[jackyjohnson]

Hello,

i've been trying to get this to work for 2 days now but i'm getting tired of it.

As far as loading the external swf into the holder. That's working fine. The tricky part is getting the holder to reposition when the browser is being resized. Right now it doesn't respond to the code. When i don't load the external swf into the movieclip with the instancename "holder" however, the movieclip does respond to the actionscript and repositions upon resizing the browser.

This is the code i'm using for it:

Stage.align = "LT"; // base measurements on the top left corner of the movie
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale"; // prevent items being scaled by default when the movie is resized

// external swf loader //

var mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
var mclL = new Object();

mcl.addListener(mclL);
mcl.loadClip("ext.swf", holder);

// external swf loader //

holder.onResize = function() {
    // set the point we want the clip to move to
    this.targetX = 800;
    this.targetY = -100;
    this.onEnterFrame = reposition;
};
Stage.addListener(holder);

holder.onResize();

function reposition() {
    // move towards the target position
    this._x += (this.targetX - this._x) / 6;
    this._y += (this.targetY - this._y) / 6;
    // if we are very close to the target position - stop
    if (Math.round(this._x) == Math.round(this.targetX) && Math.round(this._y) == Math.round(this.targetY)) {
        this._x = this.targetX;
        this._y = this.targetY;
        delete this.onEnterFrame;
    }

}

Help would be greatly appreciated, this is driving me nuts.

[Noct]

Welcome aboard,

You're loading into the same scope that the script is applied to, and killing the script in the process; that's why it works if you bypass that step.

When you load into any clip/scope, you basically wipe it clean of any previously applied scripting. You actually wipe it free of any children at all, vars, clips, etc.

To fix it:
Use a listener object to tell you when the file is fully loaded, and then apply your re-size method then.

[jackyjohnson]

Thanks Noct!

that makes sense. Well, since i'm a noob to Action Script this will probably look like gibberish but it' s all i could come up with. I put the onResize function inside the onLoadComplete evenhandler but as i kind of expected, it still ain't working.

// external swf loader //

var mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
var mclL = new Object();

mcl.addListener(mclL);
mcl.loadClip("ext.swf", holder);

// external swf loader //

mc1L.onLoadComplete = function(mc1L:MovieClip){

holder.onResize = function() {
    // set the point we want the clip to move to
    this.targetX = 800;
    this.targetY = -100;
    this.onEnterFrame = reposition;
};
};
Stage.addListener(holder);

holder.onResize();

[jackyjohnson]

here's an atachment with the fla and swf files.