MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 - ACTIONSCRIPT

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422 Chapter 12: ActionScript Dictionary

If you want to specify a target instead of a level, use loadMovie() instead of loadMovieNum().

Flash Player has a stacking order of levels starting with level 0. These levels are like layers of

acetate; they are transparent except for the objects on each level. When you use

loadMovieNum(),

you must specify a level in Flash Player into which the SWF file will load. When a SWF file is

loaded into a level, you can use the syntax,

_levelN, where N is the level number, to target the

SWF file.

When you load a SWF file, you can specify any level number and you can load SWF files into a

level that already has a SWF file loaded into it. If you do, the new SWF file will replace the

existing SWF file. If you load a SWF file into level 0, every level in Flash Player is unloaded, and

level 0 is replaced with the new file. The SWF file in level 0 sets the frame rate, background color,

and frame size for all other loaded SWF files.

The

loadMovieNum() action also allows you to load JPEG files into a SWF file while it plays. For

both images and SWF files, the upper left corner of the image aligns with the upper left corner of

the Stage when the file loads. Also in both cases, the loaded file inherits rotation and scaling, and

the original content is overwritten.

Use

unloadMovieNum() to remove SWF files or images that were loaded with loadMovieNum().

Example

This example loads the JPEG image image45.jpg into level 2 of Flash Player.

loadMovieNum("http://www.blag.com/image45.jpg", 2);

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