Load Movie with width & height?

[kakkojak]

Hi all,

I have a problem to set width, height and align for my load movie file,

thats a swf file (video file)

loadMovieNum("sos.swf", 1);
_width = 640;
_height = 480;
_align = centre;

Many thanks

[atomic]

You can't set a movie's properties loaded on a level, until you sure it's fully loaded. You need to use some preloading code, and only set the properties when the movie is fully loaded... And thus certainely not on the same actionscript as the loadMovieNum action.

[kakkojak]

Thanks for replied Automic,

btw its not for online use.. just for for ofline use, any idea to change the setting for load movie files, since i cant edit from the fla coz the file was convert from avi to swf,

Really apreciate if someone can help me

[sophistikat]

what are you using MX or Flash 5?

[kakkojak]

Im using Flash MX version 6, Is it possible sophistikat?

[sophistikat]

_align center, do you mean, align to the center of the stage?

var home = this;

home.createEmptyMovieClip("video_mc", home.getNextHighestDepth());
home.createEmptyMovieClip("oe_mc", home.getNextHighestDepth());

video_mc.loadMovie('sos.swf');

oe_mc.onEnterFrame = function ()
{
   if (video_mc._width > 0)
   {
      removeMovieClip(oe_mc);
      video_mc._width = 640;
      video_mc._height = 480;
      video_mc._x = (Stage.width / 2) - (video_mc._width / 2);
      video_mc._y = (Stage.height / 2) - (video_mc._height / 2);
   }
}

review the code... i'll explain what i did in about 10min

[sophistikat]

var home = this;

flash doesn't have a good memory and every time your use this, _parent or _root, flash has to look up the reference. if you use a variable to reference your timeline, flash will always know were to look.

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home.createEmptyMovieClip("video_mc", home.getNextHighestDepth());
home.createEmptyMovieClip("oe_mc", home.getNextHighestDepth());

we create two place holders. one for your external movie clip and one so that we can check if your .swf is loaded.

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video_mc.loadMovie('sos.swf');

begin loading your file...

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oe_mc.onEnterFrame = function ()
{
   if (video_mc._width > 0)
   {
      removeMovieClip(oe_mc);
      video_mc._width = 640;
      video_mc._height = 480;
      video_mc._x = (Stage.width / 2) - (video_mc._width / 2);
      video_mc._y = (Stage.height / 2) - (video_mc._height / 2);
   }
}

initiate a loop onto our movieclip. as it continues to loop, onEnterFrame in an endless loop unless stopped, we want to check if the width of the video_mc is greater than 0; An empty movie clip's width is 0, once any data is loaded, its width is adjusted to the contents.

Once the width has chanced, we want to remove the oe_mc movieclip, remvoing stops the loop automatically, and then you can treating the video_mc movieclip like any other movieclip... change its properties, add properties, adjust its alpha, add funcations etc. etc.

[kakkojak]

thanks sophistikat

have tried it on hard way, but doesnt go well, mayb im not good enought to understand your script, can i get sample fla file from you.

[sophistikat]

i'm on a mac right now and i don't have Flash MX with me, only Flash 8 and I can only go back to Flash MX2004. If you have MX2004, you can save it for MX??

[CyanBlue]

How fortunate I am to have FMX 2004... (Will I ever get F8 here??? Not sure about that... )

I have created a sample based upon sophistikat's code... I had to hard code the depth since getNextHighestDepth() does not work in F6 though...
Oh, you will need to test it with the HTML file since you won't get the proper Stage.width/Stage.height value properly within the Flash IDE...