# Tutorial question: 'Transitions between external SWFs' **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [May 5, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-question-transitions-between-external-swfs/109432 "2004-05-05T14:36:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hip\_van\_Binnen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@Hip\_van\_Binnen](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Hip_van_Binnen)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-question-transitions-between-external-swfs/109432/1 "2004-05-05T14:36:43Z")
I just read the ‘Transitions between external SWFs’ tutorial. Now I have a question… in the example used, the buttons for switching between SWF movies are part of the movie. Is it also possible to control/navigate between movies from outside of the Flash file? I mean, I want to place my navigating buttons in HTML. Is that going to be a problem? ---
**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 5, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-question-transitions-between-external-swfs/109432/2 "2004-05-05T14:46:59Z")
no, it is not going to be a problem, but you would have to use flashvars to “communicate” with the swf that makes the transitions. see [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=473066&postcount=4](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=473066&postcount=4) ---
**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 5, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-question-transitions-between-external-swfs/109432/3 "2004-05-05T15:14:15Z")
Okay, that looks pretty easy… However, I need to do two things: 1. Tell the current movie1.swf to ‘fade out’ (goto frame xx) 2. After movie1.swf faded out, I need to load movie2.swf/movie3.swf/movie4.swf/… etc. depending on the button I clicked. How can I make the browser do these two things? If I read your post correctly, it only takes care of step 1. Or am I missing something? ---
**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 5, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-question-transitions-between-external-swfs/109432/4 "2004-05-05T15:25:05Z")
hmmm… I don’t think flashvars is what you are looking for ☹ sorry what you want can most likely be done with javascript, but I have no experience with javascript and flash working toghether, so i wouldn’t know… this might be something: [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20098&highlight=javascript+variable](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20098&highlight=javascript+variable) [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3209&highlight=javascript+variable](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3209&highlight=javascript+variable) [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41281&highlight=javascript+variable](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41281&highlight=javascript+variable) ---
**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 5, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-question-transitions-between-external-swfs/109432/5 "2004-05-05T15:29:16Z")
Each swf loads \_root.curMovie + “.swf” when it reaches it’s last frame. So what i guess you’d have to do is create the functions that are normally on the buttons on the main timeline (edited where necessary), and then call those functions through JavaScript. However, I wouldn’t know how to do call a function in flash from JavaScript. Maybe you could do it with the example from the first thread Kalliban linked to and the watch method … so that if the variable changes (through JS) it executes a function (the button function). ---
**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 5, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-question-transitions-between-external-swfs/109432/6 "2004-05-05T15:31:37Z")
hmm, no idea how to do it but i read you can communicate with javascript and flash using the fscommand. NO idea how to do it though… ---
**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 5, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-question-transitions-between-external-swfs/109432/7 "2004-05-05T15:32:57Z")
yeah, as voets said, you would have to make a javascript function that changes the \_root.curMovie variable. I’ll experiment a little, to see what I can do 😉 I’ll keep you updated ---
**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 5, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-question-transitions-between-external-swfs/109432/8 "2004-05-05T15:34:24Z")
> [@iloveitaly](#): > > hmm, no idea how to do it but i read you can communicate with javascript and flash using the fscommand. NO idea how to do it though… I know how to execute JavaScript function from Flash using fscommand, but I don’t know how to execute Flash functions from JavaScript … lemme search and see if I can find anything. ---
**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 5, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-question-transitions-between-external-swfs/109432/9 "2004-05-05T15:52:55Z")
Thanks guys… really appreciate your help! I’ll keep watching this thread. ---
**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 5, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-question-transitions-between-external-swfs/109432/10 "2004-05-05T16:06:30Z")
I think this says it all… 😃 [http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flash\_to\_flash\_comm.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flash_to_flash_comm.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 5, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-question-transitions-between-external-swfs/109432/11 "2004-05-05T16:19:41Z")
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55254](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55254) [http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/set\_variables.htm#javascript](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/set_variables.htm#javascript) 😉