Is there a way to conrtol the flash timeline with an external html file? For example, if i loaded in a textfield formatted as html, can i get the <a> tags to , (…say) _root.gotoAndPlay (33)
as far as I know the only time the HTML can communicate with the SWF is via flashvars at runtime. There may be other ways, but I haven’t seen them, however I would look further down the Javascript path. There may be something there.
You can have named anchors inside Flash.
Labeling a frame gives you the oportunity to activate it as an achor.
So you can call your html page with this embeded falsh like this:
yourpagewithflash.html#labelone supposing you labeled some frame in your flash movie as “labelone”.
So basically all you need to do now is making an “a href=” tag in your dinamic text field, that directs you to the same html page with a named anchor.