The members Flash Newsgroups come together, to help solve each member’s problems that arise from the use of a specific program, Macromedia Flash (MX). To achieve this goal, the member’s post a question relating to a specific or generalized problem, and wait for a possible solution (or means of finding the solution) to be presented by a fellow member.
As the members of a group range from novice users to professional flash designers, the diversity is wide ranging and as such a possible solution could come from a member that is less experienced then the poster of the original message.
Example; Digest of a recent on-going communication between members of the Flash_ActionScript’ Yahoo Newsgroup:
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Post Number: 5165
From: "com_craze"
Date: Sat Apr 9, 2005 1:14pm
Subject: loading external swf
hi all,
i am busy creating my flash site and i have decided to link the
pages by loading separate swf files into a main swf file. i have
created a button and an empty movie clip with an instance name of
"facts". the button is actually in another movies clip and the code
below is used in the button in the movie clip:
on (release) {
_root.facts.loadMovie("facts.swf")
}
in this other swf file there is a simple motion tween. the thing is,
nothing happens. i get blank. what do i have to do. do i have to
import the swf file?
cheers
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Post Number: 5166
From: Mohit Sambhar
Date: Sat Apr 9, 2005 5:45pm
Subject: Re: loading external swf
hi,
I tried it, its working fine. Well, it may be that your "facts.swf" is in another folder; you have to check the path and the heirarchy struture of your movie. Here's a simple tip: Instead of using _root, do try to use "_parent"...track your path and go up to the root level as using _root may cause some problem in future.
Mohit
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Post Number: 5167
From: Rohan Chandane
Date: Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:40am
Subject: Re: loading external swf
Yeah Mohit is right,
I had similar type of problem for laoding XML into Flash. both swf files was loading XML data into it, but when i was tring to call swf file from a main swf at that time it was not loading or can say showing XML data.
it was because i was using _root in both swf files for loading XML function.
when i removed _root from external swf at that time main swf was loading XML data into it.
ne ways try doing -
on (release) {
facts.loadMovie("facts.swf")
}
it should work.
Regards,
Rohan
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Post Number: 5168
From: "com_craze"
Date: Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:25pm
Subject: Re: loading external swf
hi,
i managed to get it fixed and your right my facts.swf is in
another folder …
cheers
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Now taking this understanding of a community as ‘A group of people working towards a common goal’ and applying it to the Flash Newsgroup that has been documented above. The logical conclusion to be drawn is that the Flash Newsgroups must be considered a community in their own right, albeit a virtual community, but a community nonetheless.
References
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. (2000). Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company.
