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Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008Blank Movie Clip
Good day everyone, I am trying to create a blank movie clip and place it on a layer on my root movie, however it won't work? I think it is the original blankmovie. Can someone walk me through creating a blank movie clip to load others into. I have the button action to load to the clip as this: blank_mc.loadMovie("Bob.swf"); Any elementary level help would be great!! page_mc.loadMovie("PageSwfName.swf"); scharlton22, > Can someone walk me through creating a blank movie clip > to load others into. Select Insert > New Symbol. In the dialog box that opens, set the Type to Movie Clip, give it a Library name in the Name field, and click OK to close the dialog box. You'll see a new movie clip symbol in the Library by whatever name you gave it. Drag that movie clip to the Stage. Because it's empty, it will show up as a small white placeholder circle. Click the placeholder circle to select the symbol, and give it an instance name (such as blank_mc) in the Property inspector. At that point, your earlier code: > blank_mc.loadMovie("Bob.swf"); Should work. That invokes the MovieClip.loadMovie() method on the blank_mc instance. David Stiller Co-author, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj "Luck is the residue of good design." http://forums.flashgods.org/as2-loading-external-swfs-t70.html that seems very complec compared to how I understood it to work? How do I actually create a blank movieclip, or am I dumb? What you have provided me does that? scharlton22, > that seems very complec compared to how I understood it to work? What dz showed you is one of many ways to load content in AS2. Personally, I use dz's approach more often than the more simplified MovieClip.loadMovie() method, because the MovieClipLoader approach lets me know when content has loaded. That becomes very important if you want to use ActionScript to manipulated loaded content once it arrives. > How do I actually create a blank movieclip, or am I dumb? What you > have provided me does that? dz's suggestion creates a blank movie clip with ActionScript (this.createEmptyMovieClip()), but you can just as well create a movie clip in the Library by hand. Again, for what it's worth, I usually create blank movie clips with ActionScript, but the choice is yours. It really depends on whether or not you want to know when your content is loaded. If you use loadMovie(), you won't know -- unless you write additional ActionScript that lets you know. If knowing is important to your project, I recommend MovieClipLoader, same as dz does. If you prefer an older approach, you can read about it (and the other) here: http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/how-to-tell-when-external-swf-loaded David Stiller Adobe Community Expert Dev blog, http://www.quip.net/blog/ "Luck is the residue of good design." rather than using loadMovie, I'm suggesting that you use the MovieClipLoader class. The link I provided is the complete code that creates a blank movie clip and loads the swf into it. It allows you to do something while the swf is loading, and something once it has finished. So where you have your code, replace it with the script that can be found at the link, and change mcLoader.loadClip("swfName.swf", container); to mcLoader.loadClip("PageSwfName.swf", container); I am looking for an example how to do this in AS30 with classes. Can you show me or direct me to one? TIA Kind regards Cor The code that is referred to says it is in AS2. What would the code be for AC3? akittymom, > The code that is referred to says it is in AS2. What would the code be for > AC3? Different beast altogether. You don't even need a movieclip for that. var loader:Loader = new Loader(); loader.load(new URLRequest("somefile.swf")); addChild(loader); That's minimal code, comparable to the MovieClip.loadMovie() example shown earlier in the thread. If you want to listen for a complete even -- meaning, if you want to know when the SWF has loaded -- you'll have to add an event listener: var loader:Loader = new Loader(); loader.load(new URLRequest("somefile.swf")); loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler); addChild(loader); function completeHandler(evt:Event):void { trace("Your content, she is loaded!"); } David Stiller Co-author, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj "Luck is the residue of good design." thanks everyone, i love this forum!! |
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