Loading external swf (and controlling it's timeline)!

[sondanz]

I really need some help on this!

 

I am trying to load an external swf as soon as my movie start. That works fine. Then I want it to pause as soon as it loads. That works fine.

 

But then I need another function to tell that external swf to play. That's what I can't figure out! My playMorph function is all jacked up! What am I doing wrong?!?!

 

// function to load the external morph.swf
var morpher:LoaderMax=new LoaderMax();
function loadMorph():void{
morpher.append(new SWFLoader("www.website.com/morph.swf", {container:boy}));
morpher.load();
morpher.pause();
}


function playMorph():void{
morpher.play();
}

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// import the tween engine
import com.greensock.*;
import com.greensock.easing.*;
import com.greensock.loading.*;

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// main timeline
var timeline:TimelineLite = new TimelineLite();

timeline.appendMultiple([
	TweenLite.to(facebook,					1, {alpha:.2, ease:Expo.easeOut, delay:1, onComplete:loadMorph}),
TweenLite.from(text1,					1, {alpha:0, ease:Expo.easeOut, delay:1})]);

timeline.appendMultiple([
TweenLite.to(text1,						1, {alpha:0, ease:Expo.easeOut, delay:2}),
TweenLite.from(boy,						1, {alpha:1, ease:Expo.easeOut, delay:2, onComplete:playMorph})]);

[sondanz]

Figured out my play function needed to use "resume" instead of "play"

 

function playMorph():void{
  morpher.resume();
}

 

Is this the best way to load an external swf? I feel like it's so slow to load.

[Carl]

your swf size and connection speed is going to determine how fast the file will load. LoaderMax can't do anything to speed up a loading process. If you are noticing a delay you may want to set auditSize to false.

 

auditSize : Boolean - By default, when the LoaderMax begins to load it quickly loops through its children and if it finds any that don't have an estimatedBytes defined, it will briefly open a URLStream in order to attempt to determine its bytesTotal, immediately closing the URLStream once the value has been determined. This causes a brief delay initially, but greatly improves the accuracy of the progress and bytesTotal values. Set auditSize to false to prevent the LoaderMax from auditing its childrens' size (it is true by default).

 

http://www.greensock.com/as/docs/tween/ ... erMax.html