I'm displaying some sprites inside a Flex 3 container with Actionscript. So
far on this project, the sprites I have been showing have been visually drawn
on the screen either by embedding an image or by drawing with sprite.graphics
methods. Now, I'm trying to embed a .swf, and it works (it displays and plays),
but MovieClip method actions attempting to control the embedded .swf fail.
My first thought was I published as AM1 on accident, but the .swf is AVM2 -
Flash CS3 published as Player 9 and Actionscript 3. The .swf contains an
animation on it's root, no child clips. See the comments in the code below
(this is a simplified version of the class, I stripped out everything I thought
was irrelevant to my question). Does it have to do with a MovieClip being a
child to a Sprite? If so, why? If not, what's the issue with the code below?
package com.venice.view.network.atom
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class AtomView extends Sprite
{
private var _menu:MovieClip;
[Embed(source = "/media/buttons/atomMenu.swf")]
[Bindable]
private var _menuSource:Class;
public function AtomView()
{
createSprites();
}
private function createSprites():void
{
//this works fine, the menu.swf appears:
_menu = new _menuSource() as MovieClip;
addChild(_menu);
//however, the following MovieClip actions don't work.
//For example, (when uncommented), the following
actions
//have no effect on the root timeline:
//
//_menu.stop();
//
//or if I put a stop action on the .swf
timeline, these don't work either:
//_menu.nextFrame();
//or
//_menu.play();
//
//why? It's a Flash 9/Actionscript 3.0 .swf created
with Flash CS3.
}
}
}
Thanks for any help.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Enterprise Technology & Global Risk L&LD
Instructional Technology & Media
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