I don't get the unloading movie thing

[crzyhorse]

Jesse help, I'm having the same problems as Leo99 but I guess I'm just a little more dense than he is.....I'm loading the same type files in the same situation. Can you spell it out exactly where everything goes...before Christmas....please!!!!!!!!Thanks!!!!!!

[Jesse]

OK I've made a working example. All the code is in main.fla.
It loads up 1.swf onto Level1, then waits for it to finish, then unloads it and loads 2.swf.

Note that the 'count' veriable is just to cover a bug in loading. (When you first check the _currentframe and _totalframe of the loaded clip they both come out as 1 no matter how many frames the clip actually has, so I put in a variable which waits about 10 frames before it checks... just be sure your loaded clip has 10 frames or more and this should work fine...)

Also note that because the clips are loaded onto levels you will prolly have to adapdt the code a bit to load them into movie clips (if that's what you wish)

Either way:
See it here.
(Note: It doesn't seem to work online, prolly needs a preloader for the loaded clip... it works on my HDD perfectly...)

Download the source.

Merry Xmas!

Jesse

[Edited by Jesse on 12-22-2000 at 07:21 PM]

[crzyhorse]

jesse, thanks loads!!!!! merry christmas!!!!

[crzyhorse]

jesse, thanks loads!!!!! merry christmas!!!!

[crzyhorse]

jesse....it won't down load???????help ob1 kanobi you're my only hope......

[Jesse]

The source for the link was bad. Sorry. Fixed it in my post above, clieck 'Download it here'

Cheers

Jesse

[leo99]

Jesse, I got your example working, using both the flash 3 (last frame) and flash 5 (_currentframe, _totalframes) styles, thanks for that. But... being the plank of wood that I am, I can't figure out how to load a third movie in succession using the Flash 5 method, can you help please.

[Jesse]

Easiest way would be to make the first controller clip load the 2nd movie into a different level (save level2) then stop itself and tell another controller clip (simply a dupliacte of the first but wwith "level2" everywhere) to start going....

Cheers

Jesse

[Hollywood_Dave]

Ok. I downloaded your code and tried it out. Main, with it's two loaded clips 1 & 2 work fine.

When I tried using the same code for my two movies, it always loads the first one fine, while the second one does not load. I have been staring at this code until nearly blind. I cannot see the difference between my clip and the clip "2" in your example code.

I am working in Flash 5, and it appears all code in this example code you provided is up-to-date in Flash 5. I even renamed my 2 swfs "1" and "2" and placed them in the folder with main. It loaded the first, it didn't load the second.

Wow...I didn't expect this loadMovie situation to be so complicated....

[Jesse]

it's funny looking back on threads only 6 months ago and seeing how I've changed my styles since, and how much better flash 5 is than flash 4
I've made a new and better version. the code is heaps simpler, and you shouldn't have any problems with it.
http://www.actionscripts.org/help/new_unloader/ open the main.html to view it, grab the zip for the source