[thelist] Controlling one Flash movie from another

[joe]

Johnson, Christopher (MTO) wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
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>>From: Chris Price
>>
>>I have something happening but not what I want.
>>
>>In the first frame of the parent movie I have:
>>loadMovieNum ("MyMovie.swf",1)
>>
>>In the 2nd frame:
>>tellTarget ("_level1") {
>>   gotoAndPlay ("playThis");
>>}
>>
>>MyMovie now plays the frame with label "playThis" repeatedly.
>>
>>Whichever frame I target, it just flickers - the movie doesn't move on.
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>>
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>In the parent movie, on the second frame, what are you doing? From the
>sounds of it, the parent movie is looping and repeatedly calling the
>gotoAndPlay("playThis"); command.
>
>In addition, can I assume that the child movie is a simple movie that you
>want to start from a given location and play through to the end (or to a
>prescribed stop() position) and is several frames in length?
>
>I would take a look at what is happening in the 2nd frame of the parent
>movie. What you have coded should be working for you. How complicated are
>the two movies that you are using? Perhaps creating a test project where all
>you do is call the child movie from a blank parent movie might, at least,
>allow you to see it working correctly (just a thought).
>
>Anyway, more details, more details, more details.
>
>And yes, one movie can control another movie (within limits). I have done it
>many times on many projects. Which is what leads me to believe that the
>problem is somewhere else and not with the code listed above.
>
>chris
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Indeed, more details.  If the child movie is repeatedly looping on one 
frame, then something is telling it to do so - eg the parent movie is 
looping over your tellTarget command as chris suggested.  Maybe you 
could put your .fla online somewhere so we could look at it?

joe