Re: [Flashcoders] attachMovie fails on embedded clip in a movie, why?

2007-06-25 Thread Fumio Nonaka
One sidenote: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15638&sliceId=2 "Instances of imported symbols must be manually placed on the Timeline during authoring." _ Ian Thomas wrote: The only exception is when using shared libraries. Good luck, -- Fumio Nonaka mailto:[EM

Re: [Flashcoders] attachMovie fails on embedded clip in a movie, why?

2007-06-25 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi Chris, Is there some limitation to attachMovie that I'm missing? Any guesses, suggestions, ideas? Yes. In AS2, you can't attach a symbol from one .SWF's library into another movie's timeline. So if a parent loads a child, none of the clips in the child's library can be attached to the par

[Flashcoders] attachMovie fails on embedded clip in a movie, why?

2007-06-25 Thread Chris Bell
2nd try: Forgive if this is a repeat post. I didn't see my first request make it to the list: Hi Flash Friends, attachMovie works on a clip that is inside a clip that has been loaded by attachMovie but fails on a clip that is inside a clip loaded with loadMovie. This should be so easy,

Re: [Flashcoders] attachMovie fails on embedded clip in a movie, why?

2007-06-22 Thread Matthias Dittgen
Hi Chris, I can't follow your code snippets too well, but I try to guess your mistake: You can only attach MovieClips/Symbols with attachMovie, that are available (exported for AS) within the container SWF. Example: MovieClip A.swf contains a MovieClip Symbol "S" in the library (exported for AS)

[Flashcoders] attachMovie fails on embedded clip in a movie, why?

2007-06-21 Thread Chris Bell
Hi Flash Friends, attachMovie works on a clip that is inside a clip that has been loaded by attachMovie but fails on a clip that is inside a clip loaded with loadMovie. This should be so easy, but it is simply not working. I'd appreciate any tips pointing me to the part that I don't unders