Kurt,
I ran into the same thing about two weeks ago and it nearly drove me crazy! I found exactly what you have found, that if there is a sprite "over" a Flash sprite, the Flash sprite doesn't run. (I was trying to use Flash to do an audio only thing, and had a 16 by 16 pixel Flash sprite that I did not want to show, so I put some Director sprite over it - same result as you.)
After many hours (days even), I found that the Flash sprite needs to be "visible" in order for it to run. After continued experimentation, I found that you can do this by making the Flash sprite Direct To Stage, but movie it off the screen. The Direct To Stage, even when it is off screen, apparently tricks the Flash sprite into to thinking that it is visible, and it will run.
Give it a try,
Irv
At 12:55 PM -0400 4/14/05, Kurt Griffin wrote:
Hi all,
I just came across a little weirdness, and was wondering if anyone can give me a reason for it (found a workaround).
I have a Flash sprite. That base swf loads other swfs into a clip. I'm getting a little flash (no pun intended) when swapping the swfs. There seems to be a delay between the movieclip loader class's report of the swf being fully loaded and the actuality of the swf being fully loaded - the first swf disappears, nothing is on stage for a split second, then the new swf appears.
So, to kill the flash, I figured I'd grab the stage image, drop it in a sprite higher than the Flash sprite, and then call the Flash sprite, telling it to start the load process. Then, the loader class in Flash sends a message to Director to remove the "mask" once the load is complete.
That second call wasn't getting issued. I turned visibility off for the mask sprite to see what was happening underneath, and viola - call gets sent. So, it seems that if you fully cover a Flash sprite, it hibernates. However, using any ink except copy on the mask's sprite does not cause this.
I don't get it.
(Flash sprite is not DTS, obvously).
Bug, or am I missing some aspect of copy ink and Flash?
I have sample movies if anyone's interested.
-Kurt
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