[thelist] flash and bitmaps

[Rob Oviatt]

Erik

I thought there would be a way.  Thanks for the response.

Rob Oviatt

At 12:13 PM 6/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>My thought was to do navigation and text as apart of different scenes in 
>>the SWF file, and as you move from scene to scene the various jpgs and 
>>gifs are retrieved from the server.
>
>I think I understand what you want to do, you're on the right track in 
>your thinking ....
>
>You can't load a gif or jpeg from the server into a Flash movie, but you 
>can load another swf (which can contain bitmaps) into or on top of a swf 
>which already exists on the page.
>
>Look for the concept loadMovie in the documentation.
>
>PS - and forget about scenes ... you don't want to use scenes. Once you 
>figure out movie clips and loadMovie you'll realize that scenes are 
>useless. They're just the leftover of what was a good idea in Flash 2.
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