External .swf loaded into main .swf

[bradb1920]

Hello,

I have an external .swf "biography.swf" loading into my main movie. When I test the biography.swf before loading it into the main movie, it works fine. But when loaded into the main movie, it loads OK but the movieclip within the biography.swf does not work.

I'm using:
on (release) {
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("container", 1);
loadMovie("Biography.swf", "container");
}

Any thoughts on why the movie clips in the Biography.swf are not working?

Thanks.

[oldnewbie]

You must have references to _root in your biography movie, which wrongly point to the root level of your main movie, when biography.swf is loaded in a container clip.

Assuming you're on MX2004 at least, make sure you're using AS2.0, and add the following, on the first frame and as the first code line in your biography.fla...

this._lockroot = true;

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash...=00001522.html

[bradb1920]

You just made my day.

Thanks.

[cjkeeme]

Thank you for this resolution. It was perfect.