using load movie to load to another movie

[Will Y.]

This seems like it should be easy...but I can't figure it out - my action
scripting skills are pretty basic

I have a movie(created in MX) that loads another movie which is a photo slide
show complete with next and previous buttons. That works fine...no problem

The project is a photo a day and to keep the file sizes reasonable I want to
break each slide show into a month. So what I need to do is at the last day of
the month have the previous button load the next movie and replace itself

And this is where I'm stuck. I need to have this already loaded movie replace
itself within the main movie with a new .swf

Help. I can't figure out how or if this is possible

You can see the show [L=here]http://www.willyurman.com[/L] for what it's worth

[oe]

on the last button of your first month's .swf try to place place the
script "_root.loadMovie(...)" or "_level0.loadMovie(...)"

If this should not work (haven't tried, maybe it fails), use the main
timeline, like you did for loading the first movie:
Create empty keyframes in the main timeline with "loadMovie(...)", one
for each month. Now you can jump to these keyframes out of your swf for
the actual month (_root.gotoAndStop(NAMEOFKEYFRAME) and the scripts on
them are executed (i.e. the swf for the new month is loaded and replaces
the old one).
hope this helps.

greetings from munich!


oe



(by the way, always include your script, makes it easier to help)

Will Y. wrote:

> This seems like it should be easy...but I can't figure it out - my action
> scripting skills are pretty basic
>
> I have a movie(created in MX) that loads another movie which is a photo slide
> show complete with next and previous buttons. That works fine...no problem
>
> The project is a photo a day and to keep the file sizes reasonable I want to
> break each slide show into a month. So what I need to do is at the last day of
> the month have the previous button load the next movie and replace itself
>
> And this is where I'm stuck. I need to have this already loaded movie replace
> itself within the main movie with a new .swf
>
> Help. I can't figure out how or if this is possible
>
> You can see the show [L=here]http://www.willyurman.com[/L] for what it's worth
>

[rlc5611]

If it were me, I would keep the next and previous buttons in the main movie
(i.e. level 0) and load the photos at level 1 or above. If you have some reason
for not wanting these buttons in the main movie (e.g. it does other things
besides slide shows), then I would load the buttons as their own movie at level
1, for example, and then load photos at level 2 or above. If the buttons would
be covered up by the photos doing this, load the buttons at level 50 for
example. This would make scripting a lot simpler and always give you control
over the buttons. Having a movie replace itself is simple enough. Just load the
new movie at the same level as the existing photo movie.to