flash actionscript: Good evening,

I'm having some issues with flash as I try to integrate my slide presentation
into my master loader.

Basically I use the movieclip loader class to load all movies (the background,
the interface and the content). All content are made from slides.

while in the onLoadInit method for the moviecliploader I tell it I want to
find the numChildSlides. It behaves like it isn't there, but of course it loads
onto the page after everything else is loaded. If I use the interface to change
between slides it works like a champ.

if the code is in the slide directly I can do this._childslides and get the
full path names which show: "_level0.presentation"

if done through the loader I get "undefined"


Is there some additional switch I should try or do? I feel that the slides
load differently from my findings. It's almost as it takes longer or there's
something missing from the movieclip loader that tells it's complete. What has
you all's experiences been with this? Did you all find a solution?

Thanks for all the help,

Kelly

mmmk,

So here's what I have so far for code: Of course, I haven't found a solution
yet. :( Anyone out there know of something to try?

//layer 1 frame 1
//Fscommands
fscommand("showmenu", false);
fscommand("fullscreen ", false);

var MaxWidth4ProgressBar:Number = 550;
var nameSplice:String = "_level";
var hasMC:Boolean = false;
var currentPercent:Number = 0;

var pathName:String = "";

var filesCounter:Number = 0;
var nMaxFiles:Number = 0;

var the_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var the_listener: Object = new Object(); // I broke up this line because of
the emoticons that show on here

the_listener.onLoadError = function(mc:MovieClip) {
trace("Error");
};
the_listener.onLoadProgress = function(mc:MovieClip, bytesLoaded:Number,
bytesTotal:Number) {
currentPercent = Math.round(bytesLoaded/bytesTotal*100);
LoadBar_mc._width = (currentPercent*MaxWidth4ProgressBar)/100;
tLoader = tLoader +"/n loading... " + mc._name + " " + bytesLoaded + "kb of
"+ bytesTotal + "kb";
};
the_listener.onLoadComplete = function(mc:MovieClip){
tLoader ="Loading Complete";
};
the_listener.onLoadInit = function(mc:MovieClip) {
DuringTheLoad(mc);
};

function DuringTheLoad(mc:MovieClip){
for (var item in mc){
if (typeof (mc[item]) == "movieclip") {
hasMC = true;
//trace("\t I have a movie clip child named "+item);
}else if ([item] instanceof mx.screens.Screen) {
//this doesn't work!
trace("\t \t I have a Slide child named "+item);
trace("\t \t _ChildSlides "+ [item].presentation._ChildSlides);
}
trace(mc+"["+item+"] "+ mc[item]+" == "+typeof(mc[item]));
}
trace ("hasMC "+hasMC);
if(!hasMC){
trace ("if hasMC "+hasMC);
trace ("setProperty("+mc+",_visible,0)");
setProperty(mc,_visible,0);
setProperty(mc,_alpha,0);
}
//}
//trace ("filesCounter: "+filesCounter+"==nMaxFiles: "+nMaxFiles);
if (filesCounter==nMaxFiles){
_level1.gotoAndPlay(2);
//_level20.presentation._visible = true;
}
//this.nextFrame();
trace("\n \n");
for (var I:Number = 0; I<nContentCounter; I++){
container = I+20;
TheContent_ary[I,2] =
eval("_level"+container+".presentation.numChildSlides");
trace("tracing the level "+TheContent_ary[I,2]);
}
}
the_mcl.addListener(the_listener);


//layer 2 frame 1


//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
var TheContent_ary:Array = new Array();
var nContentCounter:Number = 0;
//we need to establish the start number for the content movieclips
var nLevelStartNumber:Number = 20;


//---------------------------------XML------------------------------------------
--
//Load the XML file which tells loader what files are loading
var LoadingTheseFiles_xml:XML = new XML();
//set XML perams
LoadingTheseFiles_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
//NOTE: set all XML paramaters before you "load" the file
LoadingTheseFiles_xml.load("courseplan/load.xml");
//while loading the XML file load to class
LoadingTheseFiles_xml.onLoad = function (){
nMaxFiles = this.firstChild.childNodes.length;
//if the XML file is loaded (true)
if(this.loaded){
for (var aNode:XMLNode = LoadingTheseFiles_xml.firstChild.firstChild; aNode
!= null; aNode=aNode.nextSibling) {
tLoader = "Loading... " + aNode.attributes.name;
if(aNode.attributes.id =="interface"){
//trace(pathName + aNode.attributes.name+".swf");
the_mcl.loadClip(pathName + aNode.attributes.name + ".swf",
Number(aNode.attributes.level));
}else{
//trace(pathName + "courseplan/" + aNode.attributes.name+".swf");
the_mcl.loadClip(pathName + "courseplan/" + aNode.attributes.name +
".swf", Number(aNode.attributes.level));
TheContent_ary[nContentCounter,0] = aNode.attributes.name;
TheContent_ary[nContentCounter,1] = Number(aNode.attributes.level)
//trace("_level"+Number(aNode.attributes.level) +"
"+evsl("_level"+Number(aNode.attributes.level)+"Presentation._visible"));
nContentCounter++;
}
trace("nContentCounter "+ nContentCounter);
filesCounter++;
}
}else{
//trace("Load unsuccessful...");
}
//trace("TheContent_ary["+0+","+0+"] "+TheContent_ary[0,0] +"
TheContent_ary["+0+","+1+"] "+TheContent_ary[0,1]);
};
//----------------------------EXD
XML----------------------------------------------


//layer 3 frame 1
stop();

Ok,

I've wound up playing with the code some and this is the current solution

//layer1 frame 1
function DuringTheLoad(mc:MovieClip){
for (var item in mc){
if (typeof (mc[item]) == "movieclip") {
hasMC = true;
}else if ([item] instanceof mx.screens.Screen) {
//this doesn't work!
}
}
if(!hasMC){
setProperty(mc,_visible,0);
setProperty(mc,_alpha,0);
}
if (filesCounter==nMaxFiles){
_level1.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
//this.nextFrame();
}