Methods 1 and 2 is not possible. A movieclip can only be attached to a timeline inside the "owning" swf.
One dirty fix would be to do the second load emidiatly after the "module" has loaded. Since that usually would mean it loading from the cache it would load to the next frame. And don't consider the loading done until this second load is done. Another thing you could do is to put the overlay movieclips into an swf of their own and load it to the higher depth. And of course don't consider the loading done until both movies are loaded. /Johan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Minase Sent: den 3 januari 2006 14:12 To: [email protected] Subject: [Flashcoders] Change layer/path of a MovieClip Hi, I was hoping someone would be able to help me with a problem i've been fiddling with for a long time. I would have thought it's fairly common, but Googling and searching this ML archive has yeilded nothing, so... I have a fairly complex application using Flash which i wont bore you all with the specifics here, but basically you have one movie which loads others as pluggable modules via external SWF files. These SWF files contain a MovieClip symbol which is linked to an AS class, which then displays stuff and communicates with the parent SWF via a standard interface. This is done with (what i assume is) the usual method of... tmp_mc=attachMovie('blankClip', 'mc'+depth, depth); tmp_mc.loadMovie(moduleName+'.swf'); <code to wait for the load here...> thingie=tmp_mc.attachMovie(moduleName, 'mod'+depth, depth); It is my understanding that layers are a kind of tree like layout, is this correct? So no matter what i do in tmp_mc.attachMovie() calls, movieclips will always be in the same plane as tmp_mc as far as the root clip is concerned. What i need to do, is be able to somehow attach a symbol from the moduleName+'.swf' file on a layer in the root space, not in tmp_mc's space. The reason for this, is the class that gets loaded for this particular module may need to do some kind of overlay on the display, so it'd make some call like mc=_root.requestOverlay(this, symbolName, etc etc). Am i making sense so far? There are three ways i can see to do this: 1) Find a way to address symbols located in moduleName+'.swf' from the root MovieClip. 2) Find a way to transfer MovieClips from one depth to another. I.e. tmp_mc.attachMovie(blah) and then move the result into root. This probably isn't possible...? 3) The method i am currently using, is to simply just load the module SWF a second (or third, fourth, etc...) time into a different depth, and attach much as i would the main module clip. This seems wasteful, though... and it also makes implentation much more clumsy because the method in the root clip cannot return the overlay clip immediately, it simply returns a handle and then notifies the caller at a later time when it is loaded. Is 1 or 2 possible? Or can you think of another method? Regards, - Daniel _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
