attach movie

[z35]

heeeeeeelp!!!!

i just finished my movie. with a lot of trial and error. it works fine offline.

i attach several movies...and i use _x _y to tell it exactly where to attach. it works perfectly offline. i loaded it and the movie clips are not attaching in the right loaction.

please help.

http://www.hdr-designs.com/flash/companies/hdr-designs/designplans.swf

notice what happens after design#9 under "wall units"

 

[z35]

i see. my main movie is on level 0 and the attached movies are on level 1.

offline it is ok.
but when i change the attached movies to level 0, their positioning seems to be ok.

is there a way to get the positioning to work online using level 1??

 

[oldnewbie]

Try...

_level1._x = 100;
_level1._y = 150;

Than an offset from the top-left corner of the main movie.
Change the values till you get positioned to your liking! Regards,

 

[z35]

let me ask you one crucial question.

if i attach a movie to level 1
and then attach another movie later to level 1, movie2 replaces movie 1 right?

please say yes...or i'm in trouble

 

[z35]

is it ok to use the _x _y from the "properties" catagory.

if not, maybe that is the problem.

 

[z35]

the problem seems to be ONLY when i attach to the _root from within a mc.

 

[z35]

i figured it out!!!
you have to use "tell target"

 

[oldnewbie]

tellTarget is deprecated, and although it still works, the dot syntax will work as well, and is much less typing. Regards,

 

[z35]

then how do you do it...it still doesn't work.

i am not able to position an attached mc on the main stage when the actionscript is inside an mc.

there has to be a way to do this.

 

[oldnewbie]

If it worked with tellTarget, it should also work with the dot syntax.
But post the tellTarget code you used and worked! Regards,

 

[z35]

unfortunately the tellTarget didn't work.

i thought i got it to work on a test sample, but i deleted that sample because i was sure i figured it out and when i tried it on my real movie, it didn't work.

i'm confused...something is still wrong. i can't find any documentation on this in "flash help" either.

 

[oldnewbie]

I've never really used attachmovie stuff or looked into it,
but I could look at your files, if you e-mail them to me.
They've probably changed since you sent me the first ones. Regards,

 

[z35]

i'll post it online: its an ugly complicated movie though.

http://www.hdr-designs.com/designplans.fla