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controlling flash movies from other flash movies

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Is it possible to have a movie pass a variable to another movie if they are not embedded in the same flash movie but are on the same html page? I can't figure out a way to make it work, and it might not even be possible. Any help or suggestions is very much appreciated.

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Yes, yes, please tell... FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEBODY TELL US! Then, of course, tell us how.
 
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Just thinking out looooooooud here!...
Seems to me, if one movie can write variables to a text file, why in hell, couldn't a second movie, on the same page, read them?

;-) "If nothing else, I can always serve as a bad example!”

 
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I've been looking at the &quot;url.htm&quot; example from potap@mail.primorye.ru and it's flash from a txt file example... where a swf is reading from a txt file, I was thinking, I could have my SWF 1 write the VARIABLES to my HTML page and then have my SWF 2 pick them up... now I know that if my txt file is on the server then if I have more than 2 folks or more on my site at once there is always the chance that they would both be saving to the same file, and we'd get the &quot;somebody ate my birfday cake&quot; senario. So then the other option is to hide the variables on the page someplace, like a Java code <PARAM> or in the <HEAD> so that it is only effecting the individual experiance. The other option is to save the data to a Cookie or have them &quot;log in&quot; and keep a &quot;locker room&quot; full of little txt files made individual for each player.

Well, there's my 2 bits, now it's off to a night of on-line personal ads, and teasing my salt-water fish with sushi.
 
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Hmmmm....

I think Oldnewbie's onto something there. If I have a chance to figure it out, you will all be the first to know.

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