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[QTip]

can I send variables from one swf to another?
Ex.
I have 2 swf's. swf1 loads swf2. If the variable i in swf1 equals 5, then frame 10 of swf2 has to be loaded.
Someone has an idea?

 

[oldnewbie]

Supposing swf1 is a 12 frames movie... And swf2 has a stop() action on it's frame 1, when you hit enter, swf1 will cycle through 5 times and then tell swf2 (which is already loaded in emptymc and stopped) to go to frame 10 and stop if there's also a stop() action on frame 10.

Frame 1 of swf1:

_level0.myvar = 0;
loadMovie ("swf2.swf", "_root.emptymc"
stop ();

Frame 12 of swf1:

_level0.myvar += 1;
if ( _level0.myvar == 5 ) {
_root.emptymc.gotoAndStop(10);
stop();
}
else{
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

ldnewbie

 

[wangbar]

You can send variables as you load the second movie too.

on(release){
_root.variable2send=_root.i;
loadMovie("secondMovie.swf","","GET"
}

...would create a variable to send between the two movies which is equal to your variable i. A handling script in your second movie such as...

onClipEvent(load){
if (_root.variable2send==5){
_myMovieClip.gotoAndStop(10);
}

... will catch this variable and act on it - in this case sending a movieClip to frame 10.

 

[oldnewbie]

Can't get away from that onClipEvent can you? LOL

ldnewbie

 

[wangbar]

What can I say? I'm an object-oriented kinda guy...;-)

Mind you it means that none of my movies are more than one frame long which makes debugging a breeze.

 

[QTip]

thnx guys!

Offcourse I have another question

I do this in the first swf file (in button1):
on (release) {
var i=1;
loadMovieNum ("test2.swf", 0, "GET"
}

When I test this swf, and I click on button1 then, then it's says:
Error opening URL "file:///C|/Temp/test2.swf?i=1"

but I have a swf called test2 and it's also in the Temp directory, so why can't he find it?

 

[wangbar]

I take it that the two files are in the same folder?

 

[oldnewbie]

Nat,
Is this still for your side menu? like testgigforum?

ldnewbie

 

[QTip]

the 2 files are in the same directory. The first is called test1.swf and the second is called test2.swf

So does anybody know why he can't find test2.swf?

 

[oldnewbie]

Sorry for my previous post... Wrong thread!

As for you Qtip, I can't get Wangbar's code to work either!
Although it does work when I use POST rather than GET.
You must also target a holder clip to hold the second movie.

Code in swf1 is:

_root.variable2send = 10;
loadMovie ("swf2.swf", "_root.emptymc", "POST"
stop ();

Code in swf2 is:

if (_root.variable2send == 10) {
gotoAndStop (10);
} else {
gotoAndStop (14);
}
stop ();

If variable2send equals anything but 10, swf2 goes to frame 14 rather than 10.

Regards,

ldnewbie