Hi, for my site I am using HTML frames.
1 frame is called “menu” and the other is called “main”.
I am wondering if there is anyway I can control the .swf in “main”
with the .swf in “menu”.
More specifically - would it be possible to set a variable in the .swf contained “menu” and then depending on the value, make the .swf in “main” act in a certain way.
For example set the variable within the .swf in “menu” :
myvariable=1
and then do a check within the .swf in “main” :
If my variable==1 {do this}
?
I havn’t actually tried “just” doing that because I think it will take more. Does anybody know?
I’ve never tried that, nor have I heard of anyone trying it, but that doesnt mean it cannot be done. I have to ask, and I mean no disrespect, if you’re doing this in Flash, why use frames at all? It look like you have a big flash movie on the left and that strip on the right. Why not combine them into one interface?
Regarding using one interface :
2 reasons really, firstly at the time I started creating my site I didn’t know how to use load movie, and my flash skills are not what they are now.
Secondly its much easier to combine just html/javascript pages on 1 site if you use frames.
It’s possible using local Connection, or whatever that stuff was called, or maybe sending variables to the swf (as in “myswf.swf?var1=something” …)
I had a link on that, there’s a fla on flashkit also, if you really need it, i might be able to find it…lemme know…
wouldnt it be easy to use a PHP page to pass all the variables and instructions to flash via getURL ? or am I being too simple here, as I am pretty new with PHP.
Peace
Yeah I think that could be done, my experience with PHP is virtually non-existant. If you can post code that would work between the two flash files that would be helpfull
However my current server seems to only support PHP at version 2.2, when most of the good stuff is 3/4. I have had problems getting mailing forms to work in Flash because of that. I have tried using Perl with CGI scripts, but still I can’t get it to work, I’m stumped as to why it doesn’t work… with perl. I may post here shortly about it!
In November I am to a lightning fast server with PHP 4… and its not gonna cost me a penny
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