Not sure if this is the issue, but it sure does sound like it.
Does embed.swf have a base class?
The issue I ran into caused all of my timeline code to not execute,
i.e. fail silently, which seems to be what is happening with you.
The problem was that I couldn't import the external.swf's base class
and type cast the external.swf as that class in the class that loads
it in (if it's a local class casting something as ":Class", you're
importing it)...
That's a bit of a run-on sentence, and it may or may not make
sense.... i'll give you an example to try to clarify:
Let's say external.swf's base class is External...
If you do:
var _loader:Loader = new Loader();
_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, loadingComplete );
_loader.load( new URLRequest( "external.swf" ) );
function loadingComplete(e:Event):void{
addChild(_loader.content);
}
The timeline code will execute, however, if you do:
var _loader:Loader = new Loader();
_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, loadingComplete );;
_loader.load( new URLRequest( "external.swf" ) );
function loadingComplete(e:Event):void{
var external = External(addChild(_loader.content));
}
The timeline code will not execute.
Obviously, this is a bit of an issue as you cannot correctly typecast
your external swf's and have timeline code run inside of them.
The way I got around this was changing External to ExternalBase and
then creating a new External class -- I then set the document base
class of external.swf to "External" and typecasted it by doing var
external = ExternalBase(addChild(_loader.content));
Hope this helped.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Eric Costello <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello flashcoders,
>
> Consider the following as3 file, built for flash 10 with mxmlc; it
> embeds a swf built with Flash CS4 which contains a simple motion
> tween:
>
> package {
>
> import flash.display.*
>
> public class Test extends MovieClip {
>
> [Embed(source="embed.swf")]
> public var embed:Class;
>
> public function Test():void {
> var m:MovieClip = MovieClip(addChild(new element()));
> m.stop(); // fails
> m.y=100; // works
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
> Why is m.stop() ignored? No errors generated, it just does not stop
> the embedded swf's timeline from advancing. (All timeline methods fail
> silently: stop, gotoAndStop, etc.)
>
> Any pointers on what I'm doing wrong?
>
> TIA,
> Eric
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