loadMovie help..?

[Guil07]

Hey..

I know a lot of flash-game developers use a button on their preloader which loadMovie...'s their actual game, in order to help protect their game from import..

I played around a little with loadMovie, but every time I load my game .swf, everything just seems to go crazy. Do I need to define variables and objects in my game to it's swf file; are local variables not seen as local if the swf is loaded from another swf...?
Help..? I haven't used loadMovie before, so I'm a little confused as to how exactly it works..

Thanks,

~Guil

[Denvish]

Using _root within a loaded swf will refer to the holder swf, you'll need to replace _root.var with this.var or _parent.var within the loaded file

[Guil07]

Ah, I see.. That would be the problem.

It seems _root.loadMovie("MyApp.swf");
Keeps everything as before. So if I just remove anything that was there before the loadMovie - logically this would function perfectly, right? I'll try it out now.

Thanks a bunch Denvish, you hit the nail on the head.

~Guil