Question

i’m trying to embed a swf to my as3 flex project like this:

[Embed(source = "../assets/next_button.swf")]
[Bindable]
protected var nextButtonClass:Class;
protected var next_btn:MovieClip = next_btn = new nextButtonClass() as MovieClip;
// ...
next_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onAdChange);

next_button.swf is as2 and created with adobe flash cs4. there is a single button inside it.

if i change type of button symbol to movieclip at next_button.fla, there is no problem at passing CLICK event.

i tried to cast next_btn to mx.controls.Button and fl.controls.Button classes, next_btn is becoming null in that case.

by the way button is reacting mouseover and click events properly just doesn’t pass it to upper swf.

is there any trick i can do to pass Button events to my container swf?

Answer 1

Try embedding and instancing the symbol from inside the swf, not the entire swf:

 [Embed(source = "../assets/next_button.swf", symbol"MyButton")]

You will obviously need to replace MyButton with the actual symbol name of the button.

That should give you more direct access to it, since it won’t be wrapped by a Loader.