FLASH: Sending variables to movie in a different html-frame

[Kristof Vandommele]

Hi all,


I'm pretty new to Flash and I have a problem I can't seem to solve.


I have a setup of two flashmovies in different HMTL-frames. The movie in

left HTML-frame (i'll name this one leftMovie) controls the movie in right

HTML-frame (rightMovie).


leftMovie contains 3 buttons which trigger different animated menu's (they

slide in from the top and out to the top) in rightMovie.


The first time any of the 3 buttons in leftMovie is clicked, the following

things happen:

	1. leftMovie checks to see if any of these buttons has been pushed already

(i did this with a variable).

	2. If none of them has been clicked, a variable (buttonsClicked) is set to

indicate that a button has been clicked

	3. a FS Command is sent (to left HTML-page) with the name of the

framelabel I want to play in rightMovie.


This works okay: I push button 2 in leftMovie and menu 2 slides down in

rightMovie



If any of the 3 buttons already has been clicked, it becomes a bit more

tricky:

	1. leftMovie checks if the variable buttonsClicked has been set

(indicating that at least one of the 3 buttons has been clicked).

No problem with this, it works.

	2. I want to roll up the already present menu in rightMovie.

I send my first FS Command : moveOut, which triggers the following script:


	if ( command=="moveOut" )

        {

		targetFrame = map.FrameNum + 5;

		map.TGotoFrame("_flash0",targetFrame);

	} 

Basically, this script gets the framenumber of rightMovie and tells it to

go 5 frames further. This frame contains a 'Play'-action and starts a

'roll-up' animation: the existing menu in rightMovie slides up.


So far so good, i've got this working as well.



	3. The last thing I want to happen, is that when the menu has done it's

'roll-up' animation, the new menu slides down:


e.g.: when the movies have loaded, you click button 2 and menu 2 slides

down. Then you click button 1, menu 2 slides up after which menu 1 slides

down.


So I 've put a small action in the last frame of each of the menu-slide-up

sequences:


	Go to and Play (SlideOut)


SlideOut is a variable and contains the name of a framelabel. The variable

should be sent with my second FS Command from leftMovie to rightMovie, but

.... I can't get this to work.


The flash-action script looks like this:

            FS Command ("goToSlider", "foundationSlideIn")

(goToSlider is the command, foundationSlideIn the framelabel)


The javascript looks like this:

		if ( command=="goToSlider" )

	{

	args=""+args;

	map.SlideOut("_flash0",args);

	}


The error that happens is this one:

the argument of slideOut (sent from leftMovie) is passed to the script

correctly (i checked this with an alert-box), but then I get a 'Object

doesn't support this property or method' and the value isn't passed to

rightMovie.


Anyone out there who has a clue how to solve this?




Kristof Vandommele

kristoftales [dot] be

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