have you actually writtened/assigned/linked classes to the moviesclips? This has to be done as there is no way to put actionscript within movieclips anymore.

The main problem here, I think, is that the loader’s content is still a movieclip class no matter what. So even if you grab the constructor of the loader’s content, you’ll just be getting the MovieClip constructor. Either do it my way, or one of the comments above may also help you.

Otherwise, you should try to limit the number of actionscript that goes into your loaded content.

You’re right I have not touched ActionScript in quite awhile, but I hope this message helps.

Cheers
Daryl

I am working on an isometric engine called IsoEngine. I need to duplicate an swf externally loaded. The problem is that after being loaded and duplicated the resulting movieClip lose all its embedded actionScript. Thus a clip containing 2 or more frames will loop infinitely regardless the stop() that you would have put on the targeted swf file.
I am using the following function to duplicate my swf loaded:

var targetClass:Class = Object(loader.content).constructor;
var duplicate:DisplayObject = new targetClass();

Any idea of how we could duplicate an swf and keep its own actionscript?

Thanks in advance

“Have you tried instantiating a new Loader?”

Yeah, every time an item is clicked in the combo box, an itemSelected() function is called with:

loader = new Loader();

However, I think I found the problem!

My library assets are assigned to sound classes via:

sndClass=Class(this.loaderInfo.applicationDomain.getDefinition(“Track1?))

It seems that after the first song (and its corresponding sounds) are loaded, then “Track1″ is floating around in memory permanently assigned to the sound class “Track1″ which was in the first song! I wanted to keep the classes in each song .swf hardcoded as “Track1″, “Track2″, Track3″, etc… but I`m afraid that this won`t work.

Is there any way to break the link between these class names and the “first” song`s sound classes and clear these out of memory each time a new song is loaded, so that I can reassign them to the new song?

Thanks again,

Matt

Cheers
Daryl

Thanks for the good info.!

Do you know about unloading library assets accessed through a loaded swf at runtime. I am having trouble with “unloading” a loader object.

I am building a mixer/remixer application where the user can select (and load) a song to remix from a combo box. A song is composed of 10 mp3s embedded in a .swf file. When the user selects a song, the .swf file is loaded into a “loader” object and then the sound classes in the embedded swf are assigned to sound objects via this.loaderInfo.applicationDomain.getDefinition(“Track1″)

The first time a song is loaded it works fine, however, when the user selects another song it fails to load. What I mean is that the original song still seems to be in memory – I have a progress bar and it appears to load the new song, but after it loads, the original song still plays.

I have tried “loader.unloadAndStop()”, “loader=null”, as well as setting all the sound objects in the main swf to “null” before the load, but nothing seems to work! This driving me crazy and I`m starting to get frustrated! Is there any way I can override the previous “loader” data in memory and get at the new swf file? I can post/send code if you like!

Thanks a lot!

Matt