Comments on: Why some AS3 swfs work stand alone but fail to load into other swfs

By: From the “AS3 Things That Have Been Driving Me Crazy, But Have Really Easy Solutions” Dept. - Sam Brenner

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:19:36 +0000

[...] Why does my swf work standalone, but when I try and load it into another swf, I get a null object error? Stages. [...]

By: Ziemowit

Ziemowit — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:57:26 +0000

This code works only when you generate swf. In loaded swf doesn’t.

By: opacts

opacts — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:38:18 +0000

many many thanks saved a lots of hairs of my head :)

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:49:23 +0000

Yooooooooo!

Thank you so much, been exploding cause of this and now it works …Thank you

By: Khoa

Khoa — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:39:39 +0000

I’ve encounter this null stage reference error and know the solution as well.
BUT I still wonder why the erroneous flash run well as standalone. How can the local reference to stage is assigned before its constructor?!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:32:01 +0000

Another similar error is when an SWF relies on this.loaderInfo to be present — this would work if the current object is the root of display hierarchy, but will not if it is a child of another SWF.

By: mazari

mazari — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:35:41 +0000

thank you so much , this was really helpfull to me

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:37:40 +0000

Thank you for the clear help. My projects are normally small or modular, so i hadn’t had to preload a large main file before (in AS3). Big Hugs xxx

By: anothervictimofNOstage

anothervictimofNOstage — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:51:33 +0000

WOW!, thank you soooooooooooooo much…

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:20:30 +0000

@markledford If I'm working on the Flash IDE and i wanted to include this code on the first frame of the swf that's going to be loaded, how will the code look like?