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Dibble1000
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January 29, 2007
Question

External swf buttons

  • January 29, 2007
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Hi

I have a player which I have created with play/pause, rewind, forward buttons, and a progress bar on it. How can I link these buttons to carry out actions on an externally loaded movie?
I have searched on the forum and can only find answers for buttons for embedded movies. Can anyone help?
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ggshow
Participating Frequently
January 30, 2007
if you load the movie to root, your current content on root are actually replaced.
i suggest you create an empty movie clip on your root, and load the external swf to that empty movie clip.

try this
http://www.ggshow.net/files/loadexternalswf.zip
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Anonymous
September 2, 2009

ggshow, I'm having the same problem. I'm loading my .swfs into a Loader component using the movieClipLoader class. I'd like the viewer to be able to play, pause and stop the external .swf.

I tried to download your example but it was gone...could you re-up it? thx!

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ggshow
Participating Frequently
January 29, 2007
it depend on how you load the external swf,
loadMovie? loadMovieNum?
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Dibble1000Author
Participant
January 29, 2007
Hi
I was loading the movie by clicking on a button which was linked to the external movie.

To do this I:
Click on the button. In Behaviours - select Movieclip, Load external Movieclip, Entering the .swf file I want to load, selecting the root level.
This resulted in the button having the on Release Event and Load External Movieclip Action.
When I imported my external movie onto a page I was using: Progressive Download from Server, and a supplied Flash skin.

I now have to use a skin provided by the client and cannot get the buttons to function.
I am presumming that I add the custom skin to each external movie I load as before, but I cannot get the skin to display when I publish - I am adding the skin as skinname.swf?
How do I get the buttons to work?

This has me bamboozled!
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