controlling movies
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- legspin
I have a swf file that displays an mpg and allows you to control that mpg i.e. fast forward play stop etc...but if I load that swf file into another swf file then the controls don't work but the mpg still plays.
Has anyone else experienced this and if so how did you get around the problem?
Many thanks
- Nematoth0
probably something to do with your paths on the movieclips.. make sure it's set to play _level1.mpgMovieClip or whichever level you loaded the mpeg movie into..
- legspin0
Ah...will give it a try...cheers
- legspin0
I loaded the movie which conatins the mpg into a movieclip not a level. Does this make any difference?
- Nematoth0
just make sure the path is correct..
I always use absolute paths..
ie. _root.MovieClip.movieClip2.gotoA...
or whatever.. and it should work...
- legspin0
Nematoth - could you elaborate on that last statement please. Still wont work. Theres a volume control as well which doesn't work. You can't even budge the volume button.
- legspin0
Does anyone have an example of a real easy to use movie controller i.e. must have play,stop,rewind/fast forward.
See above: I can't get the one I have to work. It's in a swf file that has been loaded into a movie clip and the controls fail to work :(
- woodyBatts0
yo this is the deal.
it needs to say _parent.
when you load into a movieclip it screws everything up because iot is going _root.etc .etc...and when you load it in a movie clip the path becomes broken.now if you say, _parent, it doesn't matter what the parent movie clip is it will always work
- ********0
In the time it's taken to make all these posts, you could have read up on dot syntax in actionscript and solved your own problem.