Loading movie into created movieclip - target vanishes(?)

Question

I feel like I have done this a million times before just fine, but in this instance it is simply failing:

I am creating a movieclip and loading an external swf file into it, something like the following:

large_poem_clip_display = preview_clip._parent.attachMovie ("cyber poem display window" , "cyber_display" , preview_clip._parent.getNextHighestDepth() );
large_poem_clip_display.load_here.createEmptyMovieClip("inside",1);
large_poem_clip_display.load_here.inside.loadMovie( "path/to/swf" ) ;

All the movieclips involved seem to exist - they trace sensible values, but when I try the loadMovie I get the following error:

Target not found: Target="/cyber_display/load_here/inside" Base="_level0.cyber_display.load_here.inside"

I am currently just going around in circles, anyone got any ideas where to look?

Answer 1

I'm not sure i fully understand your code, but your first line of code here seems to be the problem. You're declaring large_poem_clip_display as a variable; You can't use an attachMovie method as a variable value.

I would recommend doing your attachmovie first. Then on a separate line, set your large_poem_clip_display to the instance name of the new movie you've just attached.

Something like:

preview_clip.attachMovie ("cyber poem display window" , "cyber_display" , preview_clip.getNextHighestDepth() );
large_poem_clip_display = preview_clip.cyber_display;

Hope this helps you out.