# Communicate between two separate .swf files **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [May 24, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicate-between-two-separate-swf-files/21632 "2003-05-24T02:53:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thapanther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@thapanther](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thapanther)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicate-between-two-separate-swf-files/21632/1 "2003-05-24T02:53:39Z")
hi …(long time)… i’m workin on a site now … and what i would like yo know is how / if i can communicate between two separate .swf files… what i want to do is this : i have a soundplayer… and when i go to a defrente html page (that changes only in the iframe , menu is in another iframe) i want the sound player to play another song! so i need somewhere to put a variable and let the sounplayer read that variable so he knows what song he needs to play (this is what i thought , could be a solution) … is this posible? thanks ! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicate-between-two-separate-swf-files/21632/2 "2003-05-24T05:35:29Z")
It sure is. Declare a variable in \_root, and make your sound player look if that has changed. ( when a movie is loaded into another one, they share the same root ) See this thread for more information (scroll down a bit): [thread](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22412) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicate-between-two-separate-swf-files/21632/3 "2003-05-25T21:33:00Z")
thanks , but htat one i knew … maybe i did explain it right, let me try again… i have , a html page with links to e.g. rap…, and i have soundplayer.swf wich plays songs (this on is in an iframe and is there all the time , it doesn’t get reloaded or something!) . what i want to do is when i click on rap, i want it to stop playing whateverit is playing , and start playing a rap beat !! i saw a tutorial on [avtionscript.org](http://avtionscript.org) , bt it’s in php, but since i have a free acount at brinkster i can only work with asp !! anyone ??? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicate-between-two-separate-swf-files/21632/4 "2003-05-25T21:35:31Z")
you can use the LocalConnection class to do such things… [http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/localconnection.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/localconnection.htm) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicate-between-two-separate-swf-files/21632/5 "2003-05-26T01:03:35Z")
hey thanks, that’s just what i needed !! …