onClipEvent(load) Problem

Hey, Blue-Genie;

You're at the top of the rank list so I'm in good hands.

I'm uploading both the imported movie  customweb.swf  and the movie doing the importing  menu_mov.swf. As you requested, I've changed the swf to txt on both.

Thanks for your help with this. Puzzling me to no end.

Cayce

Also, if it helps the .fla files can be downloaded here:
http://www.cayceweb.com/customweb.fla
http://www.cayceweb.com/menu_mov.fla

In the menu_mov.swf, the frame holding the loadMovie code is in the "SWF Inports" layer, frame 3.

Thanks again

i can't replicate your problem
when i run the main file, load the custom web file it loops through the cusomweb.swf and does not affect the main timeline at all?

ps, you best embed your fonts.

I think I didn't explain properly. Here's the actual question:
How do I get an imported movie to unload once another menu selection is made, once the main timeline leaves the frame the movie is imported to?

To see the problem, go to http://www.cayceweb.com and click the Illustration & Photography button. The imported movie will loop indefinitely (in this case because it's a tweened construct with 200 frames for each image... archaic, but it works). Next select the Flash Design & Development button. The imported movie will play through and stay on the selection. This is the way the whole movie is supposed to work: each selection should remain until another is made.

Now select the Custom Web Design button. That imported movie will loop through as it should. But when another selection is made after selecting Custom Web Design, the whole movie begins automatically cycling through different selections at 5 second intervals. That's because the Custom Web Design movie being imported has this script in it on each image frame:

stop();
function pause() {
clearInterval(pauseThis);
play();
}
pauseThis = setInterval(pause, 5000);

What appears to be happening is that when the Custom Web Design movie is imported, the main movie(menu_mov.swf) is adopting that setInterval script and continuing to run it even after the Custom Web Design frame has been left for another selection.

So how do I kill the imported movie, Custom Web Design, once the frame it's on has been left?

Thanks again.

Cayce

Ok, so...
By adding _root. to the myInterval name in the customweb.fla, I'm restricting the the myInterval action to the customweb.swf movie, which is the (its own) root?

Or...

By adding _root. to the myInterval name in the customweb.fla, then adding 'var myInterval:Number;' in frame1 of menu_mov scripts layer, then adding 'clearInterval(_root.myInterval);' to each button, I'm essentially telling the real root level (which is menu_mov) to strip the myInterval action coming from the customweb.swf of its value?

Whichever case, it worked. I'd just like to know why. I love digging deeper into Flash, but it's like being infatuated with someone who can't talk to you.... you just have to prod here and there, hit or miss, and judge by the response you get as to whether you're on the right track. And get advice from those who know better.

I'm curious to know the part about having set myself up for some headaches, which implies there is a better way of doing this (and I have no doubt), but I'll persevere with my learning and one day it'll come to me what you mean.

In the meantime, thank you for your geniosity. I wish I had your knowledge & experience.

Thanks much.

And, yes, I'll imbed the fonts as well.

Cayce

Wonderful. What a relief!

knowledge & experience comes with time, a lot of tears and tearing out of hair.

_root when referenced in the customweb swf by itself references customweb's root.
however once customweb is loaded into the main file, that reference inside custom web will reference the main file's root (hope that makes sense)

all you're doing is making the scope (where that variable is accessible) larger by sticking it in the main file, so that its easier for the other items to clear that variable.

in terms of your setup, it's not necessary to jump around in frames and then have various movieclips in those frames to load items.

an easier way would be to create each of those "frames" as seperate swfs.
then just load each swf into the main timeline as required - then you don't have to be unloading stuff and clearing stuff, you have 1 frame, 1 movieclip.

good luck and happy flash journeys :-)