It's an AVM1Movie, not a MovieClip. Unfortunately, this prevents you from talking to the SWF; you have to use LocalConnection, or some other binary socket way.
Have you tried with Flash 9 Alpha yet? I haven't had time but I bet this'd work. ----- Original Message ----- From: "flexnewbie06" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:48 AM Subject: [flexcoders] SWF Loader I am trying to cast swf as MovieClip in Flex 2.0. The SWF was created with Flash 8...I get an coercion error...is this something that can not be done or maybe I am doing it incorrectly. I have posted the error and my code. Any Suggestions? TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to flash.display.MovieClip. at EPlayer/::test() at EPlayer/___Button1_click() CODE: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.core.FlexMovieClip; import mx.controls.SWFLoader; function test():void{ var myMovieClip:MovieClip = MovieClip(mySWF.content); myMovieClip.gotoAndPlay(1); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:Panel height="406" width="525" paddingTop="10" paddingBottom="10" paddingLeft="10" paddingRight="10" y="10" x="10"> <mx:SWFLoader id="mySWF" source="RFP intro.swf" height="338" width="459"/> </mx:Panel> <mx:Button label="test" x="300" y="424" click="test();"/> </mx:Application> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
