unload external movie when its finished

[leo99]

Hi, can anyone help please, This is probably a dumb question to regular flash users. I want to be able to load a movie, wait till it finishes, unload that movie and then load a new movie. Kinda like a slideshow using external movies. My problem is understanding how to determine when a loaded movie has reached its last frame. Please, please help.

leo99

[Jesse]

In Flash 5 you can dot his in more ways than one, but still by far the easiest way is to simply include the action in the last frame of your loaded movie.
So that last frame of your first loaded movie will have:
[bunloadMovieNum (1);
loadMovieNum("movie.swf", 1);[/b]

(PS - If this doesn't work, replace the load movie with: _root.loadMovieNum )

That will unload your current movie and go on to the next one and it saves you the hassle of using the _currentframe and _totalframes parameters (even though you could).

Cheers


Jesse

[leo99]

Thanks Jesse, but I'm still having trouble. I'm using Wildform SWFX to create text animations output as swf files. I'm loading these into a main movie in Flash and I can't edit the last frame of the external text animations to add the script that you suggested. What I would really like to know is if there is a way to determine when a loaded movie has played once only without personally knowing how many frames are in the external movie - I've noticed other people mentioning that it is not a good idea to leave x amount of blank frames in the timeline to cover the play length of a external movie. Any ideas??

Leo99

[Jesse]

OK then you have to do it the hard way
It's not that hard really.
I assume you load your clip up onto another level (or within another clip, it makes no difference really). I think the best way to do it would be to load your clip onto another level. Then you use get properties (see the tutorial ) to check the length of the loaded clip and loop until the current frame is greater than or equal to the total length...

Come to think of it you might have to load it into a target clip ... but either way you code would be something like this:

Once movie is loaded:
total = getProperty ( "/target", _totalframes );

This sets the variable 'total' to the total number of frames in your loaded clip.

Then have a 2 frame looping MC with:

Frame 1:
if (_level0.target._currentframe = _level0:total) {
// we're at the last frame, do whatever
} else {
gotoAndPlay (2);
}

Frame 2:
if (_level0.target._currentframe = _level0:total) {
// we're at the last frame, do whatever
} else {
gotoAndPlay (1);
}

So this will loop until you reach the last frame of the loaded clip, then do whatever you put where the comment is....


Cheers

Jesse

[Jesse]

Posted example, see:
http://www.actionscripts.org/forums/...id=212#post212

Cheers

Jesse

[leo99]

Strok, could you elaborate please...

Leo.

[Jesse]

Strok? Right thread?

Cheers

Jesse

[leo99]

Ooooh.. spooky, I could have sworn there was a comment from Strok on this thread when I read it yesterday. I even checked the similar thread from crzyhorse and it's not there, think I need to lie down. What's my name again?...

thanks Jesse,

Leo