Question

Hello I have a SWF clip that I got from a friend. the code looks like this:

[Embed(source="assets/gorilla_run.swf", mimeType="application/octet-stream")]private   var gorillaRun:Class;

public var loader:Loader = new Loader();
private var movie:MovieClip= new MovieClip;

loader.loadBytes(new gorillaRun());
movie.addChild(loader);

stage.addChild(movie);

I would like to access the frames of this movieclip so that I can control its action. There are many frames to this SWF however when I use this command:

trace(movie.totalframes);

I get “1” as my output.

Answer 1

You get number of frames in the container (movie). When you make this movie.addChild(loader);, you do not insert timeline from gorilla_run.swf to the movie. If you want to get total farmes try this:

trace(MovieClip(loader.contentLoaderInfo.content).totalFrames);