7 Replies Latest reply on Nov 15, 2007 5:25 PM by kglad

unloading AS3

arandlett Nov 15, 2007 11:44 AM

I have loaded an external movieclip into another on the stage. I would like to have a button that is in the loaded movie clip that unloads that loaded swf. Problem is that I cant have Mouse event listener on that button to call a function on the main stage. My guess is having to use event Dispatcher but not sure how to implement it.

What would be the best way to do this?

1. Re: unloading AS3

kglad Nov 15, 2007 12:19 PM (in response to arandlett)

why not?

and you'll need to close all streams in your external swf in addition to unloading it.
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2. Re: unloading AS3

arandlett Nov 15, 2007 12:27 PM (in response to kglad)

How do I tell it to unload itself and all the streams in the external swf.
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kglad Nov 15, 2007 12:30 PM (in response to arandlett)

you use the loader's unload() method to unload it.

and you need to know what streams etc are open in order to close them. there's no global function to do that for you.
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arandlett Nov 15, 2007 12:52 PM (in response to kglad)

how do you access the loader.unload() from with the loaded swf? Since _root is no longer available.
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kglad Nov 15, 2007 1:05 PM (in response to arandlett)

your external swf's main timeline's parent will be the loader, after loading is complete.
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arandlett Nov 15, 2007 1:40 PM (in response to kglad)

thx
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kglad Nov 15, 2007 5:25 PM (in response to arandlett)

you're welcome.
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