Basing timeline progression on movie clip

[quaker93]

Okay what I'm trying to do seems pretty simple, but I just can't seem to make it work. I am using Flash MX v.6.0
I have a movie clip on the first frame of the scene which I want to loop while it loads a heavier interactive loading screen. I want the loop to play to continually play until the next frame is loaded. But AT LEAST ONCE. That's the part I'm getting hung-up on. If I just have put the movie clip down it will keep looping until it move on, but I don't know how to make it go through all the way if it loads faster than one loop. I've tried setting a variable = 0 at the beginning and then setting = 1 at then end in the movie clip and then using a check on that variable to move to the next frame, but it doesn't seem to work. A trace action that I put in seems to indicate that it is checking for that variable once (before it's even declared in the movie clip) and that's all.
I hope this makes sense. Does anyone have any advice to give. I'm sure there is some simple function or something that I could use, but I'm just familiar enough with Flash.

thanks!
Tim

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Your strategy is good. Can you post your code here, as there may be something wrong with your scripts?

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[quaker93]

Kenneth,
Thanks for looking at this. I think one of the fundamental problems I'm having is that the actionScript in the frame where I'm looping my small animation does not continually keep rechecking. I'm open to any other methodologies for achieving what I'm trying to get. I've been banging my head against this wall for too long now.
Here is an .fla file with basic structure and actionScripts along with some dummy images slugged in to similate the heavier loads

http://www.rebelforces.com/simpleLoadExample.fla

thanks!
Tim

 

[quaker93]

Well it looks like I found a workaround. Seems like a little of a hack but it works. I just copied my looping animation into the main scene and inserted before everything else. Then put an instance of the movie clip that contains the same animation in the next frame. Now it plays through once then the movie clip loops until the next frame loads.