[swfmill] Accessing frames in AS3

[Joel Poloney]

Ok, I'm beginning to understand this a little better now. As for swfmill,
here's a sample of the xml that I was using to generate the swf:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<movie width="768" height="576" framerate="12" version="9">
    <background color="#FFFFFF"/>
    <frame name="img1">
        <library>
            <clip id="img1" import="img1.png"/>
        </library>
        <place id="img1" name="clipImg1" depth="1"/>
    </frame>
    <frame name="img2">
        <library>
            <clip id="img2" import="img2.png"/>
        </library>
        <place id="img2" name="img2" depth="1"/>
    </frame>
</movie>

Is this the wrong approach? I was going through the docs on the swfmill wiki
and put this together from that.

The way I was loading the swfs in before is by using var movie:MovieClip =
event.target.content in the callback function. This will work with a flash 9
swf that was exported as a movie in Adobe Flash CS. I'm thinking that my xml
file for swfmill isn't correct. Any help there?

Sorry about all of the newbie questions. I've just learned about swfmill and
AS3 is a whole new ballgame from previous versions. I appreciate all of the
help.

-- Joel

On Nov 12, 2007 11:25 AM, Trevor Burton <trevor.burton at virtuefusion.com>
wrote:

> Sorry, this wasn't clear...
>
> I suggested you put your frames in a MovieClip in order that you can
> access them once the swf has loaded.... this is just a personal preference
> as i think it makes things easier - there are other ways to do it.
>
> when your swf has loaded you can instantiate the FramesClip using the
> 'getDefinition' or getDefinitionByName calls to instantiate the FramesClip
> class because the swf that's loading it doesn't have any reference to the
> FramesClip class. so you can't just do
>
> new FramesClip();
>
> it just instantiates the class from it's qualified classname - you can
> treat it as a MovieClip and do your gotoAndPlay/Stop calls on it. I'm not
> sure how you'd give it the classname in swfmill - cause i've not used
> swfmill for compiling AS3 swfs.
>
> If that's a problem the alternative is to have your content on the main
> timeline of the swf that's being loaded and then attach the Loader object to
> the displaylist (either before the load starts or after it's completed).
> Loader extends DisplayObject so you can addChild() it. this should mean that
> your content is visible as soon as the load's complete (or as soon as it's
> attached after the load is complete). But i'm not sure how you'd handle
> controlling the timeline from there as i don't use this technique myself...
> you should be able to work it out fairly easily though.
>
> the Event that's passed to your loadComplete handler contains information
> about the Loader that fired it - so you can do
>
> var loader:Loader = event.target as Loader;
>
> to get the loader object
>
> -------------------------
> Trevor Burton
> Flash Developer
> VirtueFusion
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