R – Flash = Preload movie

actionscriptflash

Ok, so this might seem like a stupid question, please try and see my predicament (at least that's what I tell myself):

I have a flash, which loads button with Actionscript 2.0. Now, my swf is no longer than 1 frame, and in my Actionscript, I refer a lot to _root.

Is there a way I can preload my movie without interfering with the _root references. Because I tried doing an onEnterFrame trace of the movie like this:

_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
   trace(this.getBytesLoaded());
}

But this does not trace anything until the movie is loaded completely.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Best Answer

I would suggest checking out the _lockroot function.

It can be found documented in the Flash help here:

Learning Actionscript 2.0 in Adobe Flash -> Best Practices and Coding Conventions for ActionScript 2.0 -> ActionScript coding conventions -> Handling scope -> Using _lockroot I hope this helps

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I'm quite sure you cannot "create" your own attributes for the object tag. At least not without consulting with the w3c ;-)

Passing values to flash is done via the "flashvar"-param:


  <object ...>
    <param name="flashvars" value="&xmlpath=<path to xml>"/>
  </object>

In the flash-movie you can now access the path to your xml via the "xmlpath"-variable.

How to control a dynamically loaded SWF

You need to add an event listener o the loader first so that you know when the load is complete. So from your code snippet i would suggest something like

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(file);
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, function(event : Event) : void
{
var swfTimeline:MovieClip = loader.content as MovieClip;
swfTimeline.nextFrame();
});
loader.load(request);

Lots of different ways to organise this code but that should do the trick

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