PICT.swf is loaded into SlideShowMC container and SlideShow is attached to the main timeline of CONTAINER MOVIE via a _.root.attachMovie command. I can get the preloader MC to work when I test the PICT.swf, but it fails when PICT.swf is loaded into SlideShow on the main timeline...

To repeat the hierachy from Top down: >PreloaderMC on maintimeline of PICT.swf movie ----> PICT.swf loaded into SlideShowMC ---->SlideshowMC attached to the root and main time line of CONTAINER MOVIE with a depth of 5

Here is the code for the preloaderMC in PICT.swf. I was told that since it is an MC in a swf, root refers to the root of SWF, not of the CONTAINER MOVIE, but this code is causing an endless loop on the main time line:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) { if (_root.getBytesLoaded()<=100) { this.display = "wait for it .."; } else if (_root.getBytesLoaded()>=_root.getBytesTotal()) { _root.play (); } else { this.display = int(_root.getBytesLoaded()/1000)+"k of "+int(_root.getBytesTotal()/1000)+"k"; } }

IS THIS _root. syntax address the root of PICT.swf or because it is loaded into an attached MC, is it addressing the root of the Main timeline?

I tried to address this by addressing the PICT.swf itself, but it didn't work. [You can't use PARENT can you, since PICT is a SWF and not an MC...????]

I then tried to address the SlideshowMC, but it didn't work either:

>onClipEvent (enterFrame) { > if (_root.SlideShow.getBytesLoaded()<=100) { > this.display = "wait for it .."; > } else if (_root.SlideShow.getBytesL >oaded()>=_root.SlideShow.getBytesTotal()) { > _root.SlideShow.play (); > } else { > this.display = int(_root.SlideShow.getBytesLoaded()/1000)+"k of >"+int(_root.SlideShow.getBytesTotal()/1000)+"k"; > } >}

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