loading gif into flash player 8 problem!

you're welcome. you could try a work-around if it's that hard to use a _level instead of a target movieclip:

you could edit the html page published by flash mx to make it think you published for flash 8.

if you're not publishing for flash 8, you can't use loadMovie() to load your gif. and if you're using flash mx, you're not publishing for flash 8. it doesn't matter what's in your code, you're directing the flash player (version 8 if the user has it installed) to use flash 6 settings. that won't load a gif using loadMovie()

use loadMovieNum and reference the _level (after loading is complete) to control the loaded gif. you should be able to work-around this inconvenience.

sorry kanukukreja I only have flashMX, Im abit behind the times its my employers version of flash and he hasnt updated it for work yet :-(

check out this new method introduced in flash 8 "MovieClipLoader"

Hi kanukukreja

Im still stuck with loading a gif into a movieclip using loadMovie(), sorry...

but the method I described above loadMovieNum() does load a gif into a new level in your flash movie, so if its any help you can try it. The problem is scoping to the gif once it is there, it will sit on a new level on your main timeline. Also make sure it loads onto a new level that does not have any other items in it or the gif will replace what ever is there.

so for example you could use;

loadMovieNum("clown.gif",10); // 10 will be the new level in your movie

Make sure your image is in the same folder as the swf or you will need to add a complete path way to the image ie. mainFolder/newFolder/clown.gif

Make sure you have the latest version of the flash player 8. Also You wont see the swf load the gif in your authoring enviroment unless you are using flash 8, so you will have to run the swf in a browser window.

This means I dont have an answer on how to load the gif into a target movieclip;
this._loader_mcl.loadClip(...

If you find one please let me know to.

Still confused :-(

public function loadGif(file_str:String):Void {
//remove the lister from the instance of MovieClipLoader
this._loader_mcl.removeListener(this);
//delete the instance of MovieClipLoader
delete this._loader_mcl;
//create a new MovieClipLoader with the instance name '_loader_mcl'
this._loader_mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
//add 'this' as a listener to '_loader_mcl'
this._loader_mcl.addListener(this);
//load the image passed as a parameter to 'file_str' into the MovieClip '_imageHolder_mc.image_mc'
this._loader_mcl.loadClip(file_str, this._imageHolder_mc.image_mc);
}

this.coloringBook_mc.loadGif("clown.gif");
"coloringBook_mc" (ur movieclip name)

Hi kanukukreja

I would of agreed with you before I read some macromedia documentation about the new flash player 8 & flex 1.5. I have included the link below, mabey im reading it wrong but I think it says the new flash player 8 can load gif files. Have a look see what you think?

"... Because you gain many of the key benefits of Flash Player 8 in your Flex 1.5 applications, Macromedia has no plans to release a new version of Flex specifically for the Flash Player 8 version. Using Flex 1.5, you can leverage performance improvements, memory consumption improvements, and many of the new features in Flash Player 8, including file upload/download, the ActionScript/JavaScript API, improved video quality, GIF loading, and many more features.

While you may see opportunities to use many of the new features in Flash Player 8, the following is a quick rundown of the major new features of Flash Player 8 that are interesting to most Flex 1.5 developers. ...."

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/fp8_benefits.html

Thanks for the reply :-)

flash still not support GiF images
as i got the same problem in my slide show when i tried to upload GIF images from XML.
you can upload GIF images in flash only with the help of flash remoting.