Insert Dynamic Movie (External SWF File)

Display external Flash file inside Flash Designer movie.

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Preload External Flash Movies using Movie Clips
This tutorial shows you an easy way to load one Flash Movie into another. This loads the external Flash SWF Movie into a Movie Clip with the help of the Progress Bar Component. Loading a Movie into an MC means that you can address the Movie Clip in the ActionScript and change the Movie Clips properties. This MC includes the external swf file so any change that you impose on the Movie Clip also changes the external Movie nested within.

loadMovie() and unloadMovie() functions
Loading External SWF file The loadMovie() function is a little function that loads external .swf (also: .jpg, .png, etc) into a movieclip within the main movie. One advantage of this is that content is not loaded together with the main movie, which makes your swf smaller, and another is that by changing one swf you can alter many other swfs.

How to use an external .swf as a library
I'm sure you already know that if you load an external .swf into your movie, you can then use actionscript in the main movie to attach movie clips in that movie's library IN THE LOADED LAYER ONLY.For instance, if I had a .swf called "myswf.swf" and it had a movie clip in it's library exported for actionscript and labeled "myMovie":

Calling Frames in Dynamic Movie (Flash Designer)
Display frames of external swf file with gotoAndStop and gotoAndPlay commands.

Loading/Unloading external swf for newbies
This is for newbies like myself wanting to control several external flash swf files and relate them together. Example is I am doing a e-learning series and each module is an external swf (flash movie).

Loading External Images Into Flash Using the Loader Component
This tutorial will teach you one of the easiest methods to load external SWF files and images into the Flash movie, we will use the ready-made Loader Component to load an external JPEG file into our movie at run time.

Movie and Image Preloader Woes
Yes, by now we should all know that Flash MX can load .jpg files dynamically into a flash movie aswell as being able to load external .swf files, but as always, when it comes to loading large files from external sources, it is good practice and almost standard to create a preloader for the file.

Load external SWF
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to load an external SWF file using Actionscript 3.0.

Loading External Sources - Images and SWF
A simple tutorial on how to load external data into Flash movie. This tutorial will teach you how to load images and swf files.

Loading external swfs from an external dynamic loaded text file
Say we have an external text file that is dynamically loaded into flash. Now say we want to have a link from this text file, which loads up external movies. If this is our situation then we can use "asfunction" in our text file to communicate a general function with flash.

Load Movie Flash tutorial
In this toturial, you're going to learn how to load external swf files to your main swf and set a specific position for it.

Using SWISH movies in Flash without Importing
I would like to propose to you a way of using SWISH movies into a standard Flash movie that is more flexible and reusable than importing. You use the LoadMovie action from Flash and keep the SWISH movie as an external .swf file.The method is simple. You create a placeholder movie clip in Flash and position it as you like in the main scene (giving it an instance name), and then add a frame action to load the SWISH movie into it.

Creating dynamic charts from an external file
This tutorial shows you how to set up the Flash MX charting components to take data from an external source such as an ASP page or text file.

Creating a Dynamic Portfolio in Flash
We previously published a tutorial on how to create a simple portfolio in Flash that features a selection of thumbnails and an image display unit. This tutorial will teach you how to create an advanced portfolio that dynamically loads images and text from external sources. An example SWF movie could be seen below featuring images and texts which are being loaded at real time from external image and text files.

Preloading External Flash Movies Flash tutorial
This preloader tutorial shows you how to load an external Flash file into another Flash file with a preloader. This gives you the opportunity to break your Flash Movie into several more manageable parts rather than having one very large Flash file. It also means that the user need only wait for that section of the Movie that they wish to view to preload rather than waiting for a much larger file to load.

Loading External Texts into Flash Using the LoadVars() Class
This tutorial will teach you how to load content from an external text file dynamically into a Flash movie. The Flash Player is capable of dynamically loading various forms of external data such as texts, images, and many other forms at run time. Viewing your content this way makes the updating process of your website much easier as you do not have to generate new SWF files using your source FLA each time you want to update the content and instead simply edit those small text files that should have all the written content of your website. The text in the following example is being loaded at real time from a separate text file located on the server.

Integrating Video in a Flash Movie
Want to integrate video in your Flash movie? You have two choices. You can embed the video in your Flash document, or keep progressively download it into a SWF file using from a FLV (Flash Video) file. In this tutorial you'll learn to use the Media Playback Component to display a FLV file in a Flash movie.

Load Movies into Levels and Movie clips
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to use Levels to load several Flash movies (or Jpegs) simultaneously into a single shock wave file (swf). How to switch between one Flash movie and another without loading a new web page. How to load a new movie into a movie clip of a pre-existing movie.

Loading an external mp3 file
Learn how to load external mp3 files in your Flash movie, so that you can have background music in your site or anything else you imagine!

How to put a picture underneath the SWF file
How to put an SWF file on top of a picture directly in your html page.Adding a picture underneath your Flash animations requires a bit of hand coding. You can do this in the html editing mode of your html editor. To do the coding by hand is a bit more complicated when you are used to the standard "insert flash file" features, such as available in Dreamweaver and Frontpage.

Create a Form with Conditional Logic and Send Data
You can create a form with conditional logic that allows the SWF file to respond to user interaction and send the form data from the SWF file to an external source. This tutorial shows you how to create a simple form. Before taking this lesson, you should be familiar with writing functions and variables; to learn about these, select Help > Flash Tutorials > Basic Tasks: Create an Application.

Load Movies into Levels and Movie clips Flash tutorial
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to use Levels to load several Flash movies (or Jpegs) simultaneously into a single shockwave file (swf). How to switch between one Flash movie and another without loading a new web page. How to load a new movie into a movie clip of a pre-existing movie. To do this we need to look at the following ActionScript keywords.

Internal Actionscript Architecture
A blank .swf file is not quite empty, inside of all your .swf files you will find the actionscript that defines the built in objects such as Math, String and Array but what does that code look like? Well unfortuneatley when you publish to the .swf file format, all your actionscript is compiled in into bytecode, so its no longer in its human readbable form.

Loading External Data into Flash
Below is the Tutorial of how Flash obtains data from External sources. You might be wondering how a flash (.SWF) file obtains data from remote files.

Playback External FLV File
Comparing to embedded video, the method Playback external FLV offers a number of benefits over embedded video,Here is a tutorial to show you how to use ActionScript to playback FLV with Flash Maker -- Sothink SWF Quicker.

Accessing ID3 Tags (external .mp3)
In Flash MX you have the capability to load an external mp3 sound file into a flash movie using the Sound.loadSound() method. In the latest release of the Flash 6 Player it is possible to access the ID3 tags embedded in an mp3 encoded file. Unfortuneatley you cannot access the ID3 tags in an mp3 file until it has *fully* loaded, this is fine when you are using the Sound.attachSound() method but it causes problems when you are loading an external sound into the player...

Proxy Scripting in Flash - Loading External Data
This tutorial/article attempts to explain one method of loading external data (different server/domain) into a Flash movie. This allows for constantly changing updated data to be included in your flash movie that is based on an external data source.

Loading External Images
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create a Flash Movie which loads an Array of external images such as Jpegs or Gifs. These images would then be loaded individually into the Flash Movie as and when the user wished to look at them. This makes the Flash Movie much smaller and reduces the pre-load time for the Flash Movie. The individual images would each have there own pre-loader so that there is a small delay before loading individual images but no long wait at the beginning of the Movie.

Sound controller
In this tutorial, we will learn, To attach external .mp3 file to swf, To create preloader for sound file, To create play / stop button, Volume controller and Balance (Pan) controller

Preload External Flash Movies using Components Flash tutorial
In this preloader tutorial you will learn how to load an external Flash file into another Flash Movie using the Loader and Progress Bar Components. The use of Components make this is very simple and quick build. You can then break up your Flash project into several Flash movies rather than having one very large Flash file. It also means that the user only needs to wait for that section of the site that they wish to view.

Loading external swfs in the right position
This is a simple tutorial answering a simple question: How can I place a loaded movie in the position I want? It's about the loadMovie action. The loadMovie loads external swfs in movie clips of our movie.

Displaying a Flash Movie (.swf) in a HTML page
This tutorial will show you how to display a Flash Movie (.swf) in a HTML page using the <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags.

Loading External Images Flash tutorial
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create a Flash Movie which loads an Array (list) of external images such as Jpegs or Gifs. These images would then be loaded individually into the Flash Movie as and when the user wished to look at them. This makes the Flash Movie much smaller and reduces the pre-load time for the Flash Movie. The individual images would each have there own pre-loader, so that there is a small delay before loading individual images but no long wait at the beginning of the Movie.

Pass Parameters into your Flash File at runtime
One way you can get around not being able to pass a parameter in is to add a "querystring" to your swf src in the embed tag / param movie in your object tag and then look at the _url property for the movie and strip off the query part.

JavaScript Pop-up windows (no external scripts) in Flash - a definitive guide
This tutorial describes a method of using JavaScript within your Flash movie without using any external JavaScript in the html your movie is embedded in. For the example we are going to be creating pop-up windows. This tutorial starts off with the basic method involved then goes into some more advanced effects. And finally finishes off by describing how to dynamically update the movie located in your pop-up with JavaScript from your parent movie.

Loading an external movie
There are two methods of loading external movies into Flash: Loading into an empty movie clip (mc) or loading into another level.

Password Protection / Loading External Text
In this tutorial you will learn how to password protect your Flash Movie or Application by loading in a password that is located in an external text file. This will be presented in a step-by-step format.

Simple preloader
A preloader is a usually simple animation that is played during the rest of a file is downloaded. An animation is made attractive to keep a viewer occupied, especially when the size of a swf is substantial. There are various kinds of preloaders; from simple forms showing a loaded percentage to sophisticated animations. However, because preloaders are a part of the main movie, they should be as small as possible in terms of file size since the preloader itself needs to be downloaded prior to the rest of the movie.

Controlling flash from html
Say we have an external text file that is dynamically loaded into flash. Now say we want to have a link from this text file, which loads up external movies or we simply want to controll our flash from an external text that we have loaded; if this is our situation then we can use "asfunction" in our text file to communicate a general function with flash.

Caching SWF files for Faster Movies Flash tutorial
Learn how to cache SWF files to speed up the loading and unloading of movie files that are used repeatedly throughout a site.

Insert Dynamic Movie (External SWF File)

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