mcommini wrote:
> Hey! I've got a flash file which acts as the main menu
for a program I'm
> developing. Everything works fine from the main menu
however when you click to
> return to the main menu the whole main menu file
reloads. Is it possible to
> use loadMovieNum( ) to go to a specific frame within the
main swf file? If
> not, is there a way to do this?
First let me clarify one thing with you. Level zero is the
main level on the flash
player. By loading things in level zero you will remove
current content and replace
it with the new one. This is not a good idea because it works
like purge, clears the
player and from there on you can't maintain any functionality
unless you reload the
whole html document over again. Also, do not unload and load
in the same time in the
same level. Flash can hold single SWF per level, once you
load content, whatever previously
loaded will be automatically replaced, so just the loadMovie
action and you all set.
Good practice is to have the main level (zero) an empty base
and than load and unload
things in above levels, 1 and so on...
> Here's the button code I'm using now:
> on (release) {
> unloadMovieNum(0); //unloads the current movie so we can
reload the main menu
> loadMovieNum("DemoMainMenu.swf", 0); //reloads the main
menu
> }
>
In regard to the load and go to. Yes it is possible but no
matter what frame you want to
go to,you need to load the whole movie first. I will come
back to that in a second.
While you execute the loadMovie action, you can set up a
variable, for example:
loadMovieNum("file.swf", 1);
Variable="mcommini_01";
Than in the loaded movie you have preloader which makes sure
that the movie is loaded before
playing and once done loading, make it jump to frame which
has IF ELSE condition in some kind
of loop, using setInterval or Enterframe. That condition
checks for the variable value and based
on it proceed to particular frame.
That's why I told you not to clear level zero, if you set
variable and load movie in that level
in the same time, all the information will be gone and you
have totally no reference point to
get the variable from.
You could as well use shared object which is native form of
Flash's cookies. Write SOL file into
user drive temp folder, than read it from the other file and
go to frame based on the given value.
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Urami
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