I have a main movie called "introtest.swf" I want to replace it
completely with "abouttest.swf".

Here is my code
on (release) {
loadMovieNum("http://www.ultimate-journey.com/abouttest.swf", 0);
}

This is attached to the button called "About Doug"

Here is a url of the movie on an html page. At the bottom, you will see
the "abouttest.swf" movie so you will know what I am doing.

http://www.ultimate-journey.com/zindex2.html

I can't for the life of me figure out why this won't work.

Is it just me, or is this WAY harder than it was in Flash 3 and 4?

Tim Hines
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Looks like you initial movie is doing a stop .. so when the second movie
load in its place, the player is still stopped.  NOTE: To see this, you
right-click on the second movie you'll see 'play' is unticked in the menu
(ie the movie is stopped) .. select play and it works.
--
Jeckyl

Yes, the last frame in my initial movie has a "stop" action. This is to
keep it from looping. Is this incorrect? And if I remove this, will the
second movie possibly load correctly?

Thanks,
Tim Hines
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Jeckyl wrote:
> Looks like you initial movie is doing a stop .. so when the second movie
> load in its place, the player is still stopped.  NOTE: To see this, you
> right-click on the second movie you'll see 'play' is unticked in the menu
> (ie the movie is stopped) .. select play and it works.

I have a main movie called "introtest.swf" I want to replace it
completely with "abouttest.swf".

Here is my code
on (release) {
loadMovieNum("http://www.ultimate-journey.com/abouttest.swf", 0);
}

This is attached to the button called "About Doug"

Here is a url of the movie on an html page. At the bottom, you will see
the "abouttest.swf" movie so you will know what I am doing.

http://www.ultimate-journey.com/zindex2.html

I can't for the life of me figure out why this won't work.

Is it just me, or is this WAY harder than it was in Flash 3 and 4?

Tim Hines
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urm hi

I dont know much but i think...

on(release){
_root.loadMovie("abouttest.swf",0);
}

that looks right to me.....   for loadmovie you dont need to use http:// jus
t
keep the main swf in the same place.

Thanks, but no dice. Output reports this error.
**Error** Scene=Scene 2, layer=About Doug Button, frame=15:Line 2: Type
mismatch.
_root.loadMovie("abouttest.swf",0);

Any thoughts?

Dragonusthei wrote:
>  urm hi
>
>  I dont know much but i think...
>
>  on(release){
>  	_root.loadMovie("abouttest.swf",0);
>  }
>
>  that looks right to me.....   for loadmovie you dont need to use http:// 
just
> keep the main swf in the same place.
>

I have figured out part of the problem. I have added a button made from
one of the "x" buttons to the left of the movie and it loads the movie
correctly.

So now I have to figure out why the buttons made of the x button nested
into a graphic selected to "track as button" don't work.

I'm on my way now.

Tim Hines wrote:

> I have a main movie called "introtest.swf" I want to replace it
> completely with "abouttest.swf".
>
> Here is my code
> on (release) {
>     loadMovieNum("http://www.ultimate-journey.com/abouttest.swf", 0);
> }
>
> This is attached to the button called "About Doug"
>
> Here is a url of the movie on an html page. At the bottom, you will see
> the "abouttest.swf" movie so you will know what I am doing.
>
> http://www.ultimate-journey.com/zindex2.html
>
> I can't for the life of me figure out why this won't work.
>
> Is it just me, or is this WAY harder than it was in Flash 3 and 4?
>
> Tim Hines
> remove x to e-mail
>

Just for the information of anyone else who may experience a similar
problem:

For a button symbol nested within a graphic to be functional, the button
action must be assigned WITHIN the graphic symbol, NOT at the particular
instance in the frame.

This is why my button was not functioning. I was assigning the action to
the graphic instance in the frame, instead of editing the graphic symbol
and assigning the action to the button symbol within the graphic.

Tim Hines
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Tim Hines wrote:

> I have figured out part of the problem. I have added a button made from
> one of the "x" buttons to the left of the movie and it loads the movie
> correctly.
>
> So now I have to figure out why the buttons made of the x button nested
> into a graphic selected to "track as button" don't work.
>
> I'm on my way now.
>
> Tim Hines wrote:
> 
>