MX Communication between movies

programming flash
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I’ve got an html page with 2 different movies: ‘movie1.swf’ and ‘movie2.swf’. Is there a way that ‘movie1.swf’ can play to a certain frame and when it reaches that frame, can tell ‘movie2.swf’ to start playing? The thing is they are 2 separate swfs rather than 2 movie clips within the same swf.

Thanks

2

I think you have to use _global variables to do that…I think kirupa.com has a tut for that I think… try searching the forums and the tuts.

Cheers

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would be to have an MC which loads both the swfs into it. That way you can have quite a lot of control i.e. checking which frame 1.swf is up to before triggering 2.swf
I have been doing it with

_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“thingy”, 1);
thingy.loadMovie(“assets/1.swf”);

then you can load the second (and more ) MCs in as the first is playing

_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“thingy”+N, N);
[thingy+N]loadMovie(“assets/”+N+".swf");