# How to control a flash movie from another mc?

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**Created:** [November 12, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-a-flash-movie-from-another-mc/8000 "2002-11-12T03:14:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![multimediamkt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@multimediamkt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/multimediamkt)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-a-flash-movie-from-another-mc/8000/1 "2002-11-12T03:14:45Z")

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A flash movie has six differents scenes ;

This movie , let´s call it a.swf , is embeded on a html file which is  
a.htm;

Is it possible from another external movie clip , sitemap.swf ,  
which is on another html file , to cause to open “a.swf” on the scenes I want ?  
Let me explain what I mean , a.swf has scenes 1 , 2 , 3, 4 , 5 and 6 ;  
sitemap.swf would have 6 buttons to access those scenes ;

\<object classid=“clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000” codebase=“[http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0](http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0)” width=“250” height=“50”\>  
\<param name=movie value=“[http://sites.uol.com.br/vazzola/mmktxtdance.swf](http://sites.uol.com.br/vazzola/mmktxtdance.swf)”\>  
\<param name=quality value=high\>  
\<embed src=“[http://sites.uol.com.br/vazzola/mmktxtdance.swf](http://sites.uol.com.br/vazzola/mmktxtdance.swf)”  
quality=high pluginspage=“[http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1\_Prod\_Version=ShockwaveFlash](http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash)” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” width=“250” height=“50”\>  
\</embed\>  
\</object\>

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**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:** [November 12, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-a-flash-movie-from-another-mc/8000/2 "2002-11-12T04:09:27Z")

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No way that I know of except for having the buttons in one frame, and the movie in another, then have the buttons load a new .html page on the other side.

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**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:** [November 12, 2002, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-a-flash-movie-from-another-mc/8000/3 "2002-11-12T04:45:55Z")

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It was not a good deal to have used scenes , instead of scenes I should have used loadmovie ;  
that was a two years and half site that I am updating now ;  
remaking sometimes is harder ;

\<object classid=“clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000” codebase=“[http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0](http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0)” width=“250” height=“50”\>  
\<param name=movie value=“[http://sites.uol.com.br/vazzola/mmktxtdance.swf](http://sites.uol.com.br/vazzola/mmktxtdance.swf)”\>  
\<param name=quality value=high\>  
\<embed src=“[http://sites.uol.com.br/vazzola/mmktxtdance.swf](http://sites.uol.com.br/vazzola/mmktxtdance.swf)”  
quality=high pluginspage=“[http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1\_Prod\_Version=ShockwaveFlash](http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash)” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” width=“250” height=“50”\>  
\</embed\>  
\</object\>

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**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:** [November 12, 2002, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-a-flash-movie-from-another-mc/8000/4 "2002-11-12T08:10:38Z")

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often much harder than starting from scratch… too true. Of course content is the hardest part of a site, imo. As long as you’ve got that, you’re probebly better off making it from scratch.

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**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:** [November 12, 2002, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-a-flash-movie-from-another-mc/8000/5 "2002-11-12T08:13:27Z")

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Tis true.

If I had all the content I needed, I would start from scratch and incorporate everything into the new version.

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**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:** [November 12, 2002, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-a-flash-movie-from-another-mc/8000/6 "2002-11-12T09:54:47Z")

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Agreed, there’s no way I’ve ever heard of being able to target objects in a completely different Flash movie.

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**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:** [November 13, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-control-a-flash-movie-from-another-mc/8000/7 "2002-11-13T02:07:53Z")

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My concept of design was wrong , I should never had worked with scenes but with a base movie and “sub movies” ;  
In the way the thing it is site map can´t address scenes , it only gives idea of site content ;

\<object classid=“clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000” codebase=“[http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0](http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0)” width=“250” height=“50”\>  
\<param name=movie value=“[http://sites.uol.com.br/multi-media-mkt/mmktxtdance.swf](http://sites.uol.com.br/multi-media-mkt/mmktxtdance.swf)”\>  
\<param name=quality value=high\>  
\<embed src=“[http://sites.uol.com.br/multi-media-mkt/mmktxtdance.swf](http://sites.uol.com.br/multi-media-mkt/mmktxtdance.swf)”  
quality=high pluginspage=“[http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1\_Prod\_Version=ShockwaveFlash](http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash)” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” width=“250” height=“50”\>  
\</embed\>  
\</object\>