FLASH: Collecting Info from Flash Movie (2)

[Jeff Talbot]

Hi all,

do I take it from the deafening silence that the answer to my initial

post (below) is "it can't be done in v3"? Could somebody pleeeease

confirm/refute this as I don't really want to upgrade to v4 in the

middle of a (fairly) complex project, but will if absolutely

necessary.

I think I have discovered part of the answer by using FSCommand in a

pseudo 'getURL' action where I can set a command string and args

string, so that commands may be sent between the .swf and the

javascript, and back again. The part I can't work out is whether this

technique can be used to store and retrieve variables.


ANY suggestions/help greatly appreciated,

Jeff


BTW - I know I could 'mock' this up just by using a series of

duplicated MC's/instances with slightly different names, but this

would involve having a total of 65 alternatives for the end-screen!


> I am creating a flash movie which requires the end user to make a

> series of A/B decisions throughout the movie. Using a number of MC's

> and the Load Movie command is fine to accomplish this, but:

>

> a) is there any way I can collect responses to the decisions taken

> (i.e. did they click A or B at each stage) within the movie so that a

> 'results' sheet may be shown in the final frame of the movie?

>

> b) is there any way this information could then be passed onto an html

> form so that it would be included in a 'mailto:' response?

>

> Both of the above pertain to a plain vanilla version 3.0 of Flash (no

> Generator). Could it be done with JavaScript? I'm no expert, but I'm

> prepared to have a go! Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA.


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