Flash Site Design - movieclip works only on

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movieclip works only on _root

Myrddraal webforumsuser@macromedia.com

2003-12-18, 8:39 pm

I have this Welcome section of my site that is supposed to load into a window that you can drag around. So I created the welcome.swf and evertyhing works great, except if I load welcome.swf into another movieclip, the dynamic text does not appear, and is
n't formatted. I already know that dynamic text won't appear under a mask, I've already solved that because the text is already masked in welcome.swf...so for some reason, welcome.swf will only format and display the text (under my mask) correctly when i
t is loaded onto the _root level.
Here is a link to an example of what happens when I load welcome.swf onto _root:
http://www.sfsaz.com/test.swf ** this works great
HEre is a link to an example of what happens when I load into into another movieclip:
http://www.sfsaz.com/test2.swf ** does not work

Here is a .ZIP file containing all .FLA and source code
http://www.sfsaz.com/test.zip

Please help! This is keeping me from finishing anything! Thank you all very much!!

-Jason Kringen
jason.kringen@kringen.net
jkringen@tsofarizona.com

Myrddraal webforumsuser@macromedia.com

2003-12-18, 8:39 pm

anyone? Please! :)

tralfaz

2003-12-19, 9:40 pm

"Myrddraal" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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quote:

> I have this Welcome section of my site that is supposed to load into a

window that you can drag around. So I created the welcome.swf and
evertyhing works great, except if I load welcome.swf into another movieclip,
the dynamic text does not appear, and isn't formatted. I already know that
dynamic text won't appear under a mask, I've already solved that because the
text is already masked in welcome.swf...so for some reason, welcome.swf will
only format and display the text (under my mask) correctly when it is loaded
onto the _root level.

quote:

> Here is a link to an example of what happens when I load welcome.swf onto

_root:

quote:

> http://www.sfsaz.com/test.swf ** this works great
> HEre is a link to an example of what happens when I load into into another

movieclip:

quote:

> http://www.sfsaz.com/test2.swf ** does not work
>
> Here is a .ZIP file containing all .FLA and source code
> http://www.sfsaz.com/test.zip
>
> Please help! This is keeping me from finishing anything! Thank you all

very much!!

quote:

>
> -Jason Kringen
> jason.kringen@kringen.net
> jkringen@tsofarizona.com

It can't be fully tested because the asp file asphandler.asp is not in the
zip.
I have a couple of ideas for you though...
Delete the movieclip "holder" and create it on the fly this way...

this.createEmptyMovieClip("holder",1); // use level 1, not zero
holder.loadMovie("welcome.swf");
stop();

Font and display problems are often fixed by embedding the font outlines.
Try standard font like Arial and if that works, the problem is with the font
you are using.

This is not a good newsgroup for your test request. This forum is very
lightly used. Use the macromedia.flash.actionscript forum for this kind of
problem. It has a much bigger user base. Even macromedia.flash is a better
choice than sitedesign. There just aren't enough users here.

Good luck,
tf