How to use multiple swf files for Hud

[nolem]

Hi,

i would like to build a hud. This is dynamic. F.i. if you focus an enemy you might see his Character information movie with the assigned stats / graphics. I just got the problem, that i created single flash Movies for each job like one for inventory, one for character view, one for stats, one for hot-keys and so on. Now it might happen, that more
than one enemy is targetable and two character information movies must be showed on hud. Can i just load the swf files via "loadMovie" ? Or is the only way to pack all
datas into a single swf file? i just saw, that the examples are always single file solutions.

greets

chris

[jasonseabaugh]

Me too. Anyone?

[Saishy]

Search for linked movies.

Anyway what you want might not need it at all, you want to create many movie clips inside the same .fla file, them disable/enable them or just jump to the designated frame where they appear.

[jasonseabaugh]

That's a nice idea in theory, but it's not very versatile. For example, if I want to anchor one SWF to the center of the screen but have another SWF anchored to the lower-right corner of the screen, I could only make this working within a single FLA for 1 output resolution, where my game should be playable on several.

[shadowscrawl]

I was able to accomplish this by creating a separate class for every swf file I had and then setting them up one by one in my hudwrapper class. I agree there isn't nearly enough info about how exactly to do this so once I have cleaned up my work a bit if people are interested I can share what I have done for people to look at (its honestly pretty simple stuff and I am painfully new to programming in general so there may be some feux pas but from my testing so far it seems to be working)

[jasonseabaugh]

I went back to my initial through, and made the programmers call the SWF in unrealScript... which I'm mostly hands-off. This way I leave it up to them to figure out how to update when the resolution changes, rather than trying to figure that out at the Flash level.

Good Luck with programming.