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OK There's this beautiful poetry tornado at: http://www.levitated.net/daily/levTornadoCodePoetry.html and I'm having troubles playing it in player 7 + above.
It's as1.0 but I've managed to run it on player 6 and as 2.0 just by adding type of variable (Array) in first frame of Logic layer. Then I've made some changes and it's partially working in player 7
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How to make it work fully?

Any help/ideas appreciated. Thanks!
Chris

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A short, practical checklist for similar timeline-driven SWFs (prompted by ): when a clip runs fine stand‑alone but misbehaves after being loaded, the usual causes are scope assumptions, initialization order, and name collisions. The fixes below are low-risk and work across FP6–FP9 era players.

Common fixes and checks:

  • Avoid relying on _root inside the loaded movie. Prefer this or a local root reference created on the first frame of the clip.
  • Lock the loaded clip to its own root (set _lockroot = true inside the loaded movie's first frame) so root references resolve to that clip instead of the loader.
  • Use a MovieClipLoader and the onLoadInit callback to run any code that needs the loaded movie to be fully initialized.
  • Prevent global-name clashes: avoid _global and reuse of library linkage names between loader and loaded SWFs.
  • Test the SWF both standalone and loaded, and run it with the Flash Debug Player to see runtime errors and stack traces.
  • If the clip is timeline-heavy, consider refactoring initialization into an explicit init() function on the clip so the loader can call it reliably from onLoadInit.

Example usage pattern (AS2):

var mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var listener:Object = new Object();
listener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
    target_mc._lockroot = true;
    if (target_mc.init != undefined) { target_mc.init(); }
};
mcl.addListener(listener);
mcl.loadClip("someClip.swf", container_mc);

These steps resolve the majority of container-loading issues without reauthoring the whole clip.

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OK

No one seems to know an answer.
Basically I need this clip to be loaded to another movie. It seems to work fine when I'm loading it to main stage.
Troubles starts when I'm trying to load it to different empty MC. It loads there but doesn't work properly, that's why I want to change it to as2 player 7 or above but maybe I don't have to?
Maybe there's another way of loading it to make it work properly?

Thanks
Chris

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I've made it. So don't bother yourself anymore ;)

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