Need to play external flash swf's in a screen

[rick7653]

A client of mine has a picture of a living room with a tv set on the wall. I need to be able to put buttons on the screen that when clicked will play a different swf in the tv screen for each button. The swf's that play in the tv screen cannot be a part of the flash movie that contains the tv screen Hope this isnt too vague. Anyway can this be done without going crazy with action scripting?

[rick7653]

I need to make it play on a new layer on top of the background layer. Right now it REPLACES the background layer. Help me please oh wise ones.

[NTD]

Hi,

Create a movieclip on a seperate layer and load your external content into that movieclip. You can size and load external content at runtime. Here is a custom function for loading and sizing content to a movieclip...it loads to a movieclip named "picHolder".

function sizeLoad() {
	this.onEnterFrame = function() {
		//boolean variable to establish if the movieclip is loaded
		if (_root.loaded) {
			return;
		}
		//size  image     
		if (_root.picHolder._width>0) {
			with (_root.picHolder) {
				_x = 50;
				_y = 80;
				_width = 450;
				_height = 280;
			}
		}
	}
}
//custom load function
imagePath = "http://yourSite.com/folderName/";
function loadBackGround(imgTarg:String) {
	_root.loaded = false;
	_root.picHolder.loadMovie(imagePath+imgTarg);
	sizeLoad();
}

Now, all you need to load exteral sized content is...

myButton.onRelease = function() {
	loadBackGround("someFile.swf");
}
myButton1.onRelease = function() {
	loadBackGround("someOtherFile.swf");
}

Hope it helps
NTD

[rick7653]

Hi,

Create a movieclip on a seperate layer and load your external content into that movieclip. You can size and load external content at runtime. Here is a custom function for loading and sizing content to a movieclip...it loads to a movieclip named "picHolder".

function sizeLoad() {
	this.onEnterFrame = function() {
		//boolean variable to establish if the movieclip is loaded
		if (_root.loaded) {
			return;
		}
		//size  image     
		if (_root.picHolder._width>0) {
			with (_root.picHolder) {
				_x = 50;
				_y = 80;
				_width = 450;
				_height = 280;
			}
		}
	}
}
//custom load function
imagePath = "http://yourSite.com/folderName/";
function loadBackGround(imgTarg:String) {
	_root.loaded = false;
	_root.picHolder.loadMovie(imagePath+imgTarg);
	sizeLoad();
}

Now, all you need to load exteral sized content is...

myButton.onRelease = function() {
	loadBackGround("someFile.swf");
}
myButton1.onRelease = function() {
	loadBackGround("someOtherFile.swf");
}

Hope it helps
NTD