In the document class I have a setter called PanelX that sets the value for the variable panelX, and in the loaded swf, this

var swf1:Object=loaderInfo.content; //taken from Vincent Rose post
var test:MovieClip=MovieClip(swf1.parent)
test.PanelX=5000

Not neat but works. Even when the variable was public, i still couldnt set it as
panelX=5000
Beats me

but for me, i will never understand, why as3 is so much clearer. running in problems like this one – which is constant thing when you move from as2 to as3 – is a nightmare.

moving along with flash from plugin 3, for me, this is a break which will drive so many developers away, coming from the visual part. people that drove the flash thing up this point.

~Marco

Thanks for your posting which helped find out a solution for my problem.
IF you WANT TO EXECUTE A FUNCTION LOADED IN CHILD ON THE STAGE:
SAY A.SWF — LOADS— B.SWF
A NEEDS TO EXECUTE A FUNCTION IN B HERE IS THE SOLUTION

HERE THE FUNCTION IN B IS
function alert(msg:String):void {
trace(msg);
}

THE ONLY THING TO DO IS IN YOUR FUNCTION CALLED FROM A MOVIE … DO THIS
var swf1:Object=myload.content;
swf1.alert(“yoyo”);

I have been reading on post for 2 days to finally get part of it here.

Great Thanks

Vincent Rose

I am creating a portfolio of my work using flash cs4 and I have a menu on the left side of my original file and I want to load a swf file into my AS3 flash file to the right of this menu bar on a certain frame so when someone clicks the button it takes them to that frame where the file will be loaded. But so far I can only figure out how to load it on top of the original flash document (covering the menu bar).

Do you have the code or know the way to place the swf file in a certain place on the original document? Thanks so much, I am learning as3 still and I only know the old way in as2 to load into an empty movie clip.

The problem is the that the LOADER swf is importing the class only- it has no idea that there is timeline actionscript. So when it loads it won’t fire the timeline script of the LOADED.

To solve you either need to have the LOADER reference the LOADED by Interface, or you could have the LOADED swf extend the class which the LOADER swf imports.

heres a good explanation:
http://3lbmonkeybrain.blogspot.com/2008/02/of-document-classes-and-timeline-code.html

This was a monster of an issue for me yesterday, I wasted like 5 hours.

Or am I wrong?