Using external swf twice

[nezarov]

Hello..

How to use the same external swf with its vars in two movie clips?

var icon1_mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

var icon2_mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

var iconsLoader:Loader = new Loader();

iconsLoader.load(new URLRequest("data/icons.swf"));

iconsLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, iconsLoaded);

function iconsLoaded(event:Event):void

{

     //here I want to add the (iconsLoader.contentLoaderInfo.content) to icon1_mc & icon2_mc

}

Thanks

[kglad]

create a 2nd loader and load it twice.

var icon1_mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

var icon2_mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

var iconsLoader1:Loader = new Loader();

var iconsLoader2:Loader = new Loader();

iconsLoader1.load(new URLRequest("data/icons.swf"));

iconsLoader2.load(new URLRequest("data/icons.swf"));

icon1_mc.addChild(iconsLoader1);

icon2_mc.addChild(iconsLoader2);

[nezarov]

Thank you for your responding, Actually I want to use it more than two times as it has some variables so it needs an event listeners also..

I am wondering if I loaded it to one MovieClip then can I create actions script linkage for that MC as we do with the library symbols?

[nezarov]

var icons_mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

var iconsLoader:Loader = new Loader();

iconsLoader.load(new URLRequest("data/icons.swf"));

iconsLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, iconsLoaded);

function iconsLoaded(event:Event):void

{

    icons_mc = MovieClip(iconsLoader.contentLoaderInfo.content);

     //How to create as linkage for icons_mc?

}

Thanks

[kglad]

you can use the content property of your loader to reference the main timeline of the loaded swf.  if that's a movieclip, you can cast it as a movieclilp:

var icons_mc:MovieClip;

function iconsLoaded(e:Event):void{

icons_mc=MovieClip(e.target.loader).content;

}

[nezarov · Accepted solution]

Thanks again.. it's done with greensock SWFLoader class

import com.greensock.loading.*;

import com.greensock.events.LoaderEvent;

var icon1_mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

var icon2_mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

var iconsSWF:SWFLoader = new SWFLoader("data/icons.swf", {onComplete:completeHandler});

function completeHandler(e:LoaderEvent):void{

var _icons:Class = e.target.getClass("icons"); // "icons" is a library symbol class

    icon1_mc = new _icons();

    icon1_mc.x = 10;

    addChild(icon1_mc)

    icon2_mc = new _icons();

    icon2_mc.x = 135;

    addChild(icon2_mc)

}

iconsSWF.load();

[kglad]

then check gs'es swfloader api.

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