Cannot load external movie

[gazzap]

Hi,

I am pretty basic on flash and when I design a site I usualy just use the loadMovieNum("loop.swf", 5); on the time line which will load the swf file over the top of the main swf, as long as they are in the correct folder.

I want to be able to do this on the menu system too, so when I click on a link it will load the swf over the top of the current movie, and I want to do this for each link.

I ahve read the documentation and also gone through the boards, but I still don't understand how to do this.

I have changed the xml link to <item title="Main" clip="clips/index.swf" /> but I don't even know if this is correct, because i am just loading a movie swf, do I need the clip part?? because I don't when I load movies using flash action script, I jsut use loadmovie.

Please help?????

Many Thanks

[gazzap]

Hi,

I have all my files in the deploy folder, I have the main.swf and a pcd.swf and a natural.swf.

I have changed the XML code to the following
<item title="Main" clip="pcd.swf" />
<item title="Ford" clip="natural.swf"/>

I have put a blank movie clip on the stage of the main.swf and called it
empty_mc

I have also changed the AS layer action to

_root._visible = true;
// define item select handler
PList_mc.onItemSelect= function(n:XMLNode){
// display title in the result_txt text box on the stage
result_txt.text = n.attributes.title;
}
// populate menu
PList_mc.root = PList_mc.data =xo.firstChild;

PList_mc.onItemSelect= function(n:XMLNode){
empty_mc.loadClip(n.attributes.clip);
}


Clearly I don't know what I am doign but I am following the readme file and I have understood it as this is what i need to do, to load the swf's??

Please help

Many Thanks

[Adrian]

Replace "empty_mc" with the name of the movieclip that will load the external clip. Use loadMovie instead of loadClip.