Why use unloadMovie?

[lumstar]

Hey Guys,

Im just a little curious why you would want to use the unloadMovie command? What does it do for you? By unloading the swf, doesnt that mean that to view it again, it has to be re-loaded?

Please explain the advantages/disadvantages.

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[TFfan]

I never use it myself. I make movies invisible if I want to "unload" them. One advantage that I can think of is that it'll save some of a user's RAM. Other than that I don't really know. Using unload will indeed make the user have to reload the swf so in most cases I'm not sure why you'd want to do that.

If you are using a lot of large swfs it could bog down a computer, but you'd really need some beefy swfs.

 

[lumstar]

Thanks for that.
How exactly do you make them invisible?
What I have is a movie on which the first frame is the main navigation, and the second, third..... all have swf's which load upon frameload. What I cannot seem to do is return to the main menu (frame 1). What actionscript should I put on the Main Menu button, assuming they are in the same scene.


Regards, Lumstar

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[oldnewbie]

To turn visibility on & 0ff of movies, simply use the _visible property:

_level5._visible = false;
_level5._visible = true;

_root.targetMC._visible = false;
_root.targetMC._visible = true;

Try this for your button:

_level0.gotoAndStop(1);

Or label your first frame, and target that label:

_level0.gotoAndStop("label"
Regards,

 

[funkymonk]

Does using the _visible = false make any buttons you may have in that level inactive too?

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[oldnewbie]

Yep! Regards,

 

[funkymonk]

Thanks Old.

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[wangbar]

unloadMovie doesn't just unload .swfs it also unloads movieclips so if you have a clip on stage that can be dispensed with after a while (maybe it's a target in an arcade game that's been hit and is no longer needed) unloadMovie is one way to get rid of it. Slainte

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