Re: [flasher] swf communication

[Kurt Dommermuth]

>         I have a main movie called main_movie (I know, real creative)and 

> I have

>successfully loaded external swf files into the main_movie. Here is my

>problem, now that I have imported an external file how do I get the files to

>communicate between each other. Basically in the external file I have a

>series of buttons that I want to essentially load and unload other movies in

>main_movie, would I solve this using variables? I know that you guys and

>gals can help me out and I would much appreciate it.

>Thanks and have a good day,

>Bill

>iStream Interactive



Bill, I think you are asking about targeting?


If the main swf loaded movies like this:


loadMovieNum ("external.swf", 1);


then you would target it from the main movie like this:


tellTarget ("_level1") {

blah...

}


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If you loaded the external.swf into a Movie Clip (residing in the Main swf) 

you would target the loaded external swf by calling the name of the Movie 

Clip you loaded it into.


In other words if you did this:


loadMovie ("external.swf", "loadExternalSwfHere");


you would target it from with the Main movie as you would any other Movie Clip:


tellTarget ("loadExternalSwfHere") {

}


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am I oversimplifying the problem?


hth,

Kurt

http://www.dommermuth-1.com