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[recordlovelife]

So I consider myself an advanced-beginner at flash, for lack of a better term. I notice alot of times I get very creative, so i just run with it. And then when I get another idea, (many times) I can't pull it off because of how I previously mapped out stuff on a time line, etc.

I'm sure that blurb was a little vague, but the jist of it was this; i have noticed that with much of multimedia design there are hundreds of ways of achieving the same goal, but certain methods have their strengths that would make them favorable for certain situations.

And finally.....my question! ::hold your applause::

I'm gonna use a preloader as an example. Image you have 3 layers on your _root timeline as followed (from top to bottom)....

Actions
Preloader
Assets

On the Actions layer, the code. On the Preloader, the "loading bar" and moving mask to reveal the bar as the swf loads. And on the Assets, the actual content to be loaded. Now, what if after all of that, i want to take those three layer and make them all part of a movie. So now, any time I drag out this new movie I made. Inside of that, there are the three layers, Actions, Preloader, Assets. Is this possible, It's working backwards I guess. Or is the only way to insert a new movie clip, and build inside of there.

I don't just want this for a preloader, but for a "tool" in general.


I hope this was clear
I appreciate ALL input.

[funkysoul]

erm.. did I undestand you right?

You want to create one movie (preloader) that will fit on every project you do which you can just drag&drop into your new work?

[recordlovelife]

funkysoul, on Aug 2 2006, 01:39 PM, said:

erm.. did I undestand you right?

You want to create one movie (preloader) that will fit on every project you do which you can just drag&drop into your new work?

Sort of. Let's say I design something, and after the fact. I want to encompass all of that into a movie clip. So I can remove it from the stage, and then where nessicary I can drag and drop it in.

By the way, thank you for all your input on this form, I constantly read your help/advice and it has always seemed to steer me in the right direction, so thank you.

[cng]

You can select all the frames, copy frames. Go make new movie clip and paste frames on first frame of the layer. Everything will redistribute. With this, your buttons wont work anymore unless you change the target. You can always move everything back out of the movie clip later.

[recordlovelife]

cng, on Aug 2 2006, 02:25 PM, said:

You can select all the frames, copy frames. Go make new movie clip and paste frames on first frame of the layer. Everything will redistribute. With this, your buttons wont work anymore unless you change the target. You can always move everything back out of the movie clip later.

Nice, thank you so much man. About the button comment, is that true if the buttons are being reference to an instance?

[cng]

If you dont tell where you target is, Flash assumes it is on the stage. If you want to trigger something inside a movie clip, you need to name the movie clip as an instance and then (example):

on (release) {
	_root.movieclip.gotoAndPlay(frame);
}

If you move everything into a movie clip, you will have one more in your directory:

on (release) {
	_root.movieclip2.movieclip.gotoAndPlay(frame);
}

I'm trying to help but then I'm a noob at Flash too. This is how I do it at least. People please correct me if I'm wrong.

[recordlovelife]

cng, on Aug 2 2006, 02:39 PM, said:

If you dont tell where you target is, Flash assumes it is on the stage. If you want to trigger something inside a movie clip, you need to name the movie clip as an instance and then (example):

on (release) {
	_root.movieclip.gotoAndPlay(frame);
}

If you move everything into a movie clip, you will have one more in your directory:

on (release) {
	_root.movieclip2.movieclip.gotoAndPlay(frame);
}

I'm trying to help but then I'm a noob at Flash too. This is how I do it at least. People please correct me if I'm wrong.

haha my bad man, yeah I knew all that. Im sorry for having you doing the extra work.. My bad.