all groups > flash (macromedia) > december 2003 >
You're in the

flash (macromedia)

group:

movie in a movie


movie in a movie Jan Saalbach
12/9/2003 7:05:36 PM
flash (macromedia): hi all,
here´s what I am trying to do. I have a website built entirely in flash. Now
I also made a little id_movie only 120*30 px which I would like to be in the
lower right corner of the big movie. The little id movie repeats itself
after 50 frames, it it basically a word turning round and round all the
time. It is meant to always rotate even if the big movie does nothing. So I
built the little movie as a movie with a symbol in which i built an infinite
50 frame repetition.
BUT
when imported into the big movie I only see the first frame, no motion!
there is a "play" command in the movie as well.
what am I doing wrong? how else could I do it?
thanks,
Jan

Re: movie in a movie Jan Saalbach
12/9/2003 7:15:14 PM
in flash 5

Re: movie in a movie Adam Davies
12/9/2003 8:32:12 PM
In article <br531m$28e1sc$1@ID-37886.news.uni-berlin.de>,
fire@dubmosphere.de says...
[quoted text, click to view]
Try creating the movie as a seperate .swf (so make sure your document
size is 120 x 30), test it and make sure it rotates as you want.
then in your main movie create a blank MC and give it a name and place
it where you would want the upper left corner of the seperate movie to
appear, then use the actionscript loadmovie choose target (rather than
level) and type in the name you gave to the blank MC, test and it should
work fine.

I know it's a long way round but I tend to keep as much seperate as
Re: movie in a movie Jan Saalbach
12/10/2003 10:22:18 AM
[quoted text, click to view]

that´s what I am trying to do as well. I´ll try your suggestion later.

Re: movie in a movie Lee Bazalgette
12/17/2003 11:59:41 AM
you could call the litte movie into the big movie using loadMovieClip and
put it on a special level such as _level4, then you could use the main time
line to control it by saying _level4.play or _level4.gotoAndPlay (2); or
something like that.

If you want to practice controlling it then make a simple button and try to
get that to control the movie. Or make another really simply movie and see
if you can get it to work in that, so that you're sure nothing else in your
main movie is effecting the way it works.

Hope this is of some help.

lee

[quoted text, click to view]

AddThis Social Bookmark Button