Frame actions not working on child movieclips

[andr.in]

I've found the solutions for most of my many problems with as 3 but this one is really baffling :be:

The frame actions of child-movieclips of dynamically added movieclips are not firing!

If I have movieclip, say "mc", which contains a child-movieclip "submc" which has a timeline animation in it with "stop();" on the last frame and I add "mc" on the stage via addChild() the stop action inside the sub movieclip will not work.

All the frame actions inside "mc" itself work.
Everything works if I drag the movieclip onto the stage manually.

Right now the only way I can see to stop a movieclip on its last frame is by using the ENTER_FRAME event, but that's awfully cumbersome.

Any ideas?

I've attached a very simple example

[andr.in]

bump... anyone?
I would really like to be able to simply stop by animations :D

I added a link to the swf in the zip file:
http://andr.in/stuff/testframeaction.swf

[Krilnon]

Can you post some code or a CS3 version of the FLA (the computer I'm on now only has CS3)?

I tried to recreate your example based on your description, but my stop code seemed to work. I've attached my attempt.

[andr.in]

Thanks for the reply

I got my fla to work... it seems that if I export the child movieclip for actionscript, it works.
so.. yay?

The weird thing is that if I remove the export from your fla, yours still works :stare:

I'm attaching the cs3 version of my fla with the export enabled for the child.

I really can't tell anymore if I'm missing something or if this is some kind of flash weirdness. :crazy:

edit: Another thing, I tried to apply this to my project but it seems to require "Export in first frame" as well, but I have preloader... :|
edit edit: Ok I can make that problem go away by putting all the not-exported-in-first-frame movieclips on frame 2 an skipping that frame ( a technique described here http://senocular.com/flash/tutorials/preloading/ ), which in my opinion is a really hacky way of doing things...

[Krilnon]

I'm attaching the cs3 version of my fla with the export enabled for the child.

I really can't tell anymore if I'm missing something or if this is some kind of flash weirdness.


Not exporting submc works for me using your .fla… strange, I don't really know what's going on there. Probably just Flash weirdness like you suggested. :P


edit edit: Ok I can make that problem go away by putting all the not-exported-in-first-frame movieclips on frame 2 an skipping that frame ( a technique described here http://senocular.com/flash/tutorials/preloading/ ), which in my opinion is a really hacky way of doing things...

It is pretty hacky, but it's also the standard way to do it since there isn't really a nicer way. :-/ You could also dump those MovieClips into their own .swf or .swc files and then load those during the preloading stage, but I don't know if that's any nicer.

[andr.in]

Ok thx krilnon. Now I at least know that it's not always me :P
I'm already having some trouble creating an FLVPlayback instance via actionscript but that's another issue for another thread ;)

thanks a bunch