A question for advanced Flash designers?

Question

I have a main movie stage with a navigation function that calls different .swf files as loadMovie ("file.swf", 1) so on and so forth. My question is, "How do I call a flash file and place under the main file with the navigation so it runs under its graphics?" Here's an example. http://www.manmetropolis.com/vivelatino/index-flash.htm When it loads you should see a navigation on top. "Artistas" is the first button in the navigation. I want to load graphics that will appear under the curtains. The problem is when I call a file it loads on top of the MAIN FILE!

But I want to put the new movie under the main stage movie which is at level 0.

Is there a such thing as calling movies at negative levels? i.e. -1 or - 2. ?

Answer 1

I'm the director of Adobe Flash classes at the HTML Writers' Guild (now called eClasses.org), one of the oldest and most reputable online institutes.

The solution to your problem is to load your external swf file in a movie clip symbol and NOT in a level...

Movie clip symobls can be placed on any layer. So if you place your container movie clip (the one that will recieve the external swf) in the bottommost layer, your external swf will also be located in that layer and appear behind everything.

I do this all the time in my projects because, like you, I wish to have total control in the stacking of my elements.

The code is therefore like this: loadMovie ("file.swf", movieClipName)

Enjoy! :)

Answer 2

for many Flash updates, the customer might pick to have the Flash software. each so often there's a fashion around this - looking on the utilization (as an occasion, a image viewer, the customer can swap photos in a separate record and Flash will study them). What precisely are you thinking of doing?

Answer 3

Create a movie clip in Main File, and use attachMovie instead of loadMovie. This will solve the Problem.

If you want to use, loadMovie function make sure you given highest depth value to the new movie ("file.swf", 122),

Answer 4

Just set it out ) it should bump whatever was set at 0 before, or even better preset all the other stuff with high depths, you should be able to find an open source example at http://www.flashkit.com, plus there forum is populated with highly skilled coders.
good luck