loading movies

i havent even tried loading movies with actionscript yet because im not ready but im assuming they have to be swf but anyways i need background to be invisible because the movie im loading is a menu and it has curves so there is no way that it can take up the entire movie so how do i get teh background to be invisible?

well if its a movie clip just put:

instancename._visible = 0;

and if u want it visible again make the 0 a 1.

another method is to put a stop action on the first frame of the movle clip and leave it blank, then have the content start on frame 2...

when you want the movie visible, goto and play the 2nd frame, move it to the first to make it "invisible". I tend to use this method more because the "_visible" property can be glitchy for that particular use. But that just my opinion from my own experiences with it.

when you load a .swf into the main movie the background does not show, it uses the main movies background instead.

oh i c what he was saying. ya and it also takes on the same frame rate as the main movie

like pank said when u use a loadMovie it usually loads on top depending on what level u load it into. I pretty sure the main movie is on Level 0. Think of it as another layer order :D ie

//load hey.swf into level 1
loadMovie("huh.swf", 1),
//load another movie on top(level 2)
loadMovie("hey.swf", 2)
//replace huh.swf(on Level 1)
loadMovie("default.swf", 1)