Unable to load external .swf

By Cybergasm | Jul 5, 2009

Hello,

I am having trouble loading external .swf files. I use the following code for my loader:

ActionScript Code:


package
{
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;
    import flash.display.Loader;
    import flash.events.*;
   
    public class testLoader extends Sprite
    {
        private var mLoader:Loader = new Loader();
        private var progText:TextField = new TextField();
        public function testLoader():void
        {
            var mytext:TextField = new TextField();
            mytext.text = “Loader”;
            progText.text = “Progress…”
           
            addChild(progText);
            var url:String = ‘myEven.swf’;
            var mRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
            mLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onCompleteHandler);
            mLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, prog);
            mLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioEr);
            mLoader.load(mRequest);
        }
   
        private function ioEr(event:IOErrorEvent):void
        {
            progText.text = “ERROR!”;
        }
       
        private function prog(event:ProgressEvent):void
        {
            var percent:Number = ( 100 / event.bytesTotal ) * event.bytesLoaded;   
            progText.text = “” + percent;
           
            if(event.bytesTotal == event.bytesLoaded)
            {
                progText.text = “COMPLETE”;
                addChild(mLoader);
            }
        }
        private function onCompleteHandler(event:Event):void
        {
            progText.text = “COMPLETE!”;
            addChild(mLoader);
        }
    }
}

And the following code for myEven.swf:

ActionScript Code:


package
{
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import flash.text.TextField;
   
    public class myEven extends Sprite
    {
        public function myEven()
        {
            var bgCol:uint = 0×000000;
            graphics.clear();
            graphics.beginFill(bgCol);
            graphics.drawRect(0,0,50,50)
            stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, catchClick);
        }
       
        private function catchClick(Event:MouseEvent):void
        {
          var msgbox:Sprite = new Sprite();

          // drawing a white rectangle
          msgbox.graphics.beginFill(0xFFFFFF); // white
          msgbox.graphics.drawRect(0,0,300,20); // x, y, width, height
          msgbox.graphics.endFill();
 
          // drawing a black border
          msgbox.graphics.lineStyle(2, 0×000000, 100);  // line thickness, line color (black), line alpha or opacity
          msgbox.graphics.drawRect(0,0,300,20); // x, y, width, height
       
          var textfield:TextField = new TextField()
          textfield.text = “Goodybe, world”

          addChild(msgbox)   
          addChild(textfield)
         
        }
    }
}

The issue is that the progress reaches 100% but the other file never shows. I also know the progress check is redundant and that the complete event should do the same, but that was one of my attempts at debugging.

I am quite the AS newbie, so this might be a simple error of where my objects are getting placed, but I am not sure.

The code I gave is a chop-up of the hours-load of tutorials I have been reading, and is just meant to be a test file for me to work with loading external flash files.
Any help is greatly appreciated.