Transitions between External Swf, thats inside another external swf. 1

[nofx1728]

Sorry for the confusing topic title. These external .swfs are really killing me, can't seem to get them to play correctly. Here is what I have, based on a tutorial I found here:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions.htm.

Let me try to explain this the best I can:

*ssfp.fla
I have a main movie titled ssfp.fla. Inside here I have a blank movie clip that loads the "content" of each section of my page.

I have several different products, each set up identical, with the information changing. The first of these pages is titled ssfpbedroom.fla.

*ssfpbedroom.fla

In this ssfpbedroom.fla I have a few layers. On the bottom layer I have a blank movie clip (which will load external swf's of larger images) with the instance name "container".

Then on the next layer above I have buttons (which are thumbnails.) The idea is, when you click on a thumbnail it then loads a larger image with a description of the product. The current buttons have instance names of bed1_btn and bed2_btn.
bed1_btn:

on (release) {
	if (this.currMovie == undefined) {
		this.currMovie = "bed1";
		container.loadMovie("bed1.swf");
	} else if (this.currMovie != "bed1") {
		if (container._currentframe >= container.midframe) {
			this.currMovie = "bed1";
			container.play();
		}
	}
}

bed2_btn

on (release) {
	if (this.currMovie == undefined) {
		this.currMovie = "bed2";
		container.loadMovie("bed2.swf");
	} else if (this.currMovie != "bed2") {
		if (container._currentframe >= container.midframe) {
			this.currMovie = "bed2";
			container.play();
		}
	}
}

Then on my actions layer I have this code:

_root.currMovie = "bed1"; 
container.loadMovie(_root.currMovie+".swf");

*bed1.fla
In my bed1.fla I have 2 layers. On the botton layer is the larger picture (bed1_gr) with 2 motion tweens. Frames 1-30 goes from 0 alpha to 100. Then I have a frame on 31. Then Frames 32-62 the graphic goes from 100 to 0 alpha.

On my actions layer I have this code:
Frame 1

midframe = 31

Frame 31

stop();

Frame 62

_root.container.loadMovie(_root.currMovie+".swf");

When I preview the movie in ssfpbedroom.fla it works properly. The images fade in and out and everything is great. However, when I load ssfpbedroom.swf into my ssfp.swf it gets all screwed up. On the buttons it use to say _root. instead of where it says this. but the buttons would not do anything when I loaded my external swf.

Now, the bed1.swf loads properly when the external swf is brought in. And the buttons function. Here is the problem. If I click on bed2_btn first it will play the transition and change the content in my container. But then if I click on bed1_btn it will replay the bed2.swf. And vise versa. If the first button I click on is bed1_btn it will play the transition and show bed1 (even though it is displayed from the beginning), but then when I click on bed2_btn it will replay bed1.swf. Not sure why it is doing this.

Can someone please help me.

Thanks,

nofx1728

 

[kennethkawamoto]

I'm not sure if I understood your problem fully, but I can say the problem is "_root". When you run ssfpbedroom.swf, _root means ssfpbedroom.swf. But when you load it into ssfp.swf, _root becomes ssfp.swf, therefore it cannot find any properties which you assigned to _root.

You can use _lockroot but it's a bad practice. If you want to do it properly, use _parent: from bed1.swf, ssfpbedroom.swf would be this._parent, for example.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[nofx1728]

I'll try that right now. Thanks for the advice.

Thanks,

nofx1728

 

[nofx1728]

It worked perfect :O. Yippy! Thanks so much bro, I really appreciate it.

Thanks,

nofx1728