communication between flash movies

[bentleykf]

I'm new to flash.

What i'm trying to do is to get two flash movies on a page to communicate between each other.

Basically what i want is a button to be clicked in one movie that changes the frame in the other movie??? is this possible???

 

[bentleykf]

This is me just thinking out loud but;

Does flash have it's own DOM? I mean similar to Javascript, where the flash plug-in stores flash movies (.swf files) within the browser window as objects and one flash movie can access and change properties of the other flash movies. This could be helpful for what i'm trying to do i guess??

 

[oldnewbie]

Several ways to do what you're looking for.

With Mx, you can use LocalConnection:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/localconnection.htm

Or you can use javascript & Flash Methods to achieve the same results:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/scriptingwithflash_03.html

This is what I've use here:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/scriptingwithflash_03.html

Look at the html source. Regards,

 

[oldnewbie]

Sorry, the last link should of been this one:

http://odin.prohosting.com/~oldnew/movie1.html

Regards,

 

[bentleykf]

ahhh sweet!!!!, thanks!!!!

both of those work!!!!!

NOTE: dont name flash files to names like "location" or other objects in javascripts DOM otherwise it wont work!!