get url with load movie command

[disfasia]

i figured out my problem below in that i needed to use an empty mc and then load my clips in that space. now the only question left for me is that when i go to my page from the splash, there is a button which brings me there (i have choices as to the languages in which to view the site). when i press this button and arrive at the site there would feasibly only be the buttons that i built, and not one of the movies, say a page on who we are. how can i load a page with a button activated that loads a movie clip and disappears once another button is pressed.

thanks all,
julian

 

[TulsaJeff]

add an unloadMovie action on each button then a loadMovie action Ya' Gotta Love It!

 

[TulsaJeff]

scratch that or save it for later...I misread your post...thought you were doing a loadMovie action...

I will have to think some more about your question... any further explanation you can give would be helpful Ya' Gotta Love It!

 

[disfasia]

i have the buttons set up properly as they simply need to load each mc in the main film, the problem is when i open the homepage i do not want to have a blank page with the buttons on the left. i need to somehow have an action that tells my page to initially load with 'movieclipX' loaded. i tried to leave the homepage with one of the movieclips already in position, but every time i press a button to move to another page, the page appears for a second before opening the other mc. the buttons, therefore work, it is just the discourse of the homepage that i need to load with a movie clip in place that will also disappear when another button is pressed. i hope this helps,
thanks
julian

 

[disfasia]

what i have done since is put a 'if_frame loaded...load movie...stop" which acutally loads the movie...but as i have drop down menus and click on another page when i move the menu in the off button arean, the first page shows up again. is there a way i can have a certain film load when and only when the page is first called up?

thanks all,
j

 

[PetitPal]

I'm not sure what anyone elses' view is on this...but stuff I want to run once, and only once, I tend to write my own little conditional loop for in the inital actions thingy of your main movie... (I don't entirely trust the 'on (Load)' stuff) ...so, something like this...

if (run_only_once != "1&quot {
run_only_once = "1"

// put your code here!!!
.....
}

You get the idea...

=)

PetitPal.

 

[TulsaJeff]

Put this on the first frame of the movie clip that only needs to play initially:


if (Auto=1) {
play ();
} Ya' Gotta Love It!

 

[disfasia]

Thanks all for the help...what i ended up doing in my main film is putting two frames, one with the info (1) and one without, with a blank space for the other scenes to load upon. i ended writing a 'on mouse event _rootgotoframe 2' and this makes the first frame automatically turn to the second once any button is pressed.

Thanks again for all your help! Peace,

Julian