Code to reset entire Stage

Question

I am a novice user. I have a project in Animate where I have two external swfs that load. Everything loads and unloads fine when you first click a button to load it, then unload it. The problem is that once I load and unload, the other swf will not load. Whichever one I click first will load and unload. I don't know why this is happening. I use a projector file (publish export) and this is where it doesn't work. Everything works fine when I simply do a test scene.

So here is my question. When I go back to the page where the buttons are, is there a code that I can put on frame one so that when the playhead reaches that frame it resets everything? In my mind this is the solution to circumventing this issue.

I have tried to do multiple searches for such code and cannot find anything.

Paul

kglad · Accepted Answer

My original question still seems to be where I'm at. I had thought that the size of my Photos SWF was just too big so I had broken it into two swfs. I have since moved it back to one swf since I was getting the same result. The code works when published to .swf, so I know it has nothing to do with code per se. The problem is when I publish to Win Projector to make it executable on a local machine...something I have been doing for about 13 years. When the .exe is deployed, it gives me one launching of my swf. On subsequent attempts it goes to the launch frame but then doesn't load. The return to main still works, but all attempts after the first successful launch fail. If I ESC then relaunch the .exe I can get that initial loading. I can live with this for now, but I do these all the time and I would really like to resolve this.

In my publish settings I have tried changing the TARGET to Flash Player 30 (as well as changing it to other versions) I have even forced updated my Flash Player even though Windows 10 claims it has it built in. There are a few other options in the publish settings which don't work for me.

I'm led to believe the problem is within the publish step because the swf works. I prefer the Projector mode because I want it to go full screen and the 100s of prosecutors I work with want to be able to simply launch and go.

If there was only a way for even a button to reset the .exe without closing and relaunching I could live with that. I cannot figure out why all of a sudden this fails when previously it always worked.

try using one loader:

// first frame of first scene:

var myLoader:Loader;

if(!myLoader){

myLoader = new Loader();

var urlA:URLRequest = new URLRequest("JonesPhotosA.swf");

var urlB:URLRequest = new URLRequest("JonesPhotosB.swf");

addChild(myLoader);

}

//scene where you want to load urlA

myLoader.load(urlA); // corrected from myloader typo

// unload button

btnMainP.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_12);

function fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_12(event:MouseEvent):void

{

myLoader.unloadAndStop();

gotoAndStop(1,"Main");

}

///// scene where you want to load urlB

myLoader.load(urlB);

// unload button

btnPhoto2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_14);

// same as your other function so it's redundant

function fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_14(event:MouseEvent):void

{

myLoader.unloadAndStop();

gotoAndStop(1,"Main");

}

ClayUUID · Answer

There is no magic reset button. Anything that gets touched in the global state will have to be manually reset.

If you're loading directly into the root stage... don't. Load into an empty container clip that's on the stage. Even better, dynamically instantiate the container clip when you load the SWF, then destroy it when you unload it. That will get rid of any container-level contamination that the loaded SWFs are leaving behind.

And for the love of god, don't use scenes.

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