Disable button from loaded movie clip?

The cleanest option would be to have an event handler inside your main swf so that once the external swf is loaded it disables the buttons within itself.

Otherwise you are going to have to do quite a bit of fudging to get it to work.

i agree setup a function do toggle your buttons and call that instead.
so as you load the external swf, disable the button.

Hey Guys, much thanks. I am a little new a this though. I understand what your saying, just not sure how to implement. I am loading the external swf with this code:
var FlashLoader:Loader;
FlashLoader = new Loader();

mapsloader.addChild(FlashLoader);

FlashLoader.load(new URLRequest("Map.swf"));

--This swf has a map that is clickable, but overlays existing buttons on the main movie. So how would i disable the bottom layer button with handler?

ok so with your loader, do something like this.

Keep in mind this is all in your main swf.

var FlashLoader:Loader = new Loader();
FlashLoader.addEventHandler(Event.COMPLETE, loadingComplete);
 
mapsloader.addChild(FlashLoader);
 
FlashLoader.load(new URLRequest("Map.swf"));
 
THEN OUTSIDE THE FUNCTION WHERE YOU HAD THE ABOVE CODE
 
function loadingComplete(e:Event):void
{
  PUT THE CODE IN HERE TO REMOVE/HIDE THE BUTTONS
}

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Hey, sorry Tried getting it to work,am still having trouble. I partially got it to work.

I have attached code so far.

Thing is the swf that is loaded, has a close button on it, that i would like to unload the movie and once unloaded, the button again becomes visible or active. Is this possible? I have tried putting this, root, parent before the instance name, but i dont think it sees buttons on the swf that is loaded.
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stop();
 
//-----------------
var FlashLoader:Loader = new Loader();
FlashLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadingComplete);
 
 
btn1.buttonMode=true;
btn2.buttonMode=true;
btn3.buttonMode=true;
 
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,loadingComplete);
 
function loadingComplete(e:Event):void
{
		loader1.addChild(FlashLoader);
 
		FlashLoader.load(new URLRequest("test1.swf"));
		btn1.visible = false;
 
		}
		
btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,unloadswf1);
 
function unloadswf1(event) 
{
		FlashLoader.unload();
		btn1.visible = true;
		}

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Usually if you do

parent.removeChild(this);

It will remove itself.

it removes it when i test the movie(swf) within that fla, however when the main swf loads it, this error occurs:
Error: Error #2069: The Loader class does not implement this method.
      at Error$/throwError()
      at flash.display::Loader/removeChild()
      at test1_fla::MainTimeline/closeSwf()

adrian, why are you loading the swf into a Loader then adding the Loader to another Loader?

Not sure, I am trying to keep the file size of my main fla file down, so I  am loading external swfs that contain different content. For example my main movie moves up and down the time line and once on that frame, loads an swf with its own content. The problem is the content that gets loaded sometimes overlays the buttons from the main movie. I used the load complete function to disable to buttons undernieth, however, i have a button on the movie the was loaded that says 'close' and would like it to close or unload that movie when they click it and reactive the button on the main time line that as disabled.  
However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to tell the movie that was loaded to unload it self. I am probably making this more complicated than it has to be, but seems like a fairly common thing to do no? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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well lets see if danyul comes up with something otherwise i'll need to see what you're doing if you can zip it up and upload.

i wish i could attach the fla, but this site doesn't allow .fla files. Weird, considering its a computer tech based site. I even put them into zip and it recognized that there were .fla files inside.

Hey, sorry I was trying to stay off my computer as much as possible this w/e. I hate these frigging things.

I do have a solution however it will probably require some reworking of your code and the direction you are trying to take.

I just need one thing clarified first of all just to make sure I'm pointing you in the right direction.

You current structure from what I gather is Parent (main fla) -> Child (page fla) -> Grandchild (page content). Please correct me if I am wrong.

The approach which actionscript and most OOP languages for that matter take is that of an actual (functional) family. he Parent can tell the child what to do and the child can tell the grandchild what to do.

So if you are wanting to remove the child (and by extension the grandchildren) you would have the content of your parent swf on the bottom layer, the child content on a second layer and then the close button on the 3rd layer. So the close button would actually be in the main fla but it's on a layer above the child fla.

You would insert the child fla to the layer under the buttons by doing an addChildAt function call but of course you are going to have to know what layer the button is on.

This way you can program the button to do a removeChild or removeChildAt on the child fla as needed. If will also handle the reinstating of the original buttons etc.

if you are trying to get rig of the grandchildren only then the same concept would apply except you would work inside the child fla.

I really hope I haven't made this too confusing. But if you remember the family structure then you should be able to sort it out.

i've had a word with the ppl about the file types but for now if you want you can change the .fla extension to .txt.