Hi Jim,
No, not loadMovieNum - just loadMovie.
This is horribly simplified - but let's just say that our 'container'
movie takes care of loading, and has two layers:
_appLayer=createEmptyMovieClip("app",getNextHighestDepth());
_dialogsLayer=createEmptyMovieClip("dialogs",getNextHighestDepth());
Then load (say) app.swf into _appLayer and dialogs.swf into _dialogsLayer.
Which I'll leave as an exercise involving MovieClipLoader, if you like -
it's simple enough.
So once you've done that if you wanted to create/display a button:
import net.eirias.ui.UIButton; (this is just a simple MovieClip derived
class that gives us button behaviour on a MovieClip)
Object.registerClass("MyExitButton",UIButton);
var myExitButton:MovieClip=UIButton(
_dialogsLayer.attachMovie("MyExitButton",
"exitButton",_dialogsLayer.getNextHighestDepth()));
(Assuming that there is a movieclip symbol called "MyExitButton" in the
library of dialogs.swf.)
So what we've ended up with is a new button, displayed _inside_
dialogs.swf(and thus above everything in _appLayer), using code
defined in UIButton
(which is defined in of our container movie - dialogs.swf knows nothing
about it). Since dialogs.swf has nothing to display normally - it's a
completely empty movieclip, aside from what's in it's library - all we see
is a button floating on top of the app.
We use the same trick for custom mouse pointers, dialogs, etc. etc. We can
switch the decorative theme around the application without breaking a sweat.
Hope that makes some kind of sense. Like I said, it's not ideal, but it's
the best (and easiest) we've come up with.
Cheers,
Ian
On 12/13/05, Jim Tann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So are you using loadMovieNum("resource.swf", intDepth);? Can you give
> me some example code please? This sounds useful.
>
> Jim
>
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