Re: FLASH: How do you set a CGI redirect page

[Jeff Sibley]

Jeff Sibley wrote:


> >> > I have built a Flash 4 form. Everything works fine but I am having trouble

> > > trying to figure out how to direct the CGI's reply response action to a

> > specific

> > > frame in Flash. My server's CGI application is "FormMail" and it has a

> > > "redirect" function that allows you to specify an HTML page to reply to.

> > If I

> > > specify the Flash index.html, the flash movie starts at the beginning and

> > you

> > > never get to the reply frame inside Flash. I figure there must be a way to

> > > specify some variables in the first few frames of the Flash movie to get

> > it to

> > > skip over the introduction frames and go directly to the reply frame but I

> > > haven't had any luck figuring this out. Can anyone help me out; are there

> > any

> > > examples on the web that you can tell me about?


Found the answer on page 234 of John Croteau's book, section title "Preventing a

movie from replaying an introduction": Put an "If Frame Loaded" action in the first

frame of the movie and specify the label of the frame that holds the form you want

to sent to the server then use a "Go To" action to specify the reply frame you want

to go to. First time the movie is loaded it will run the actions, see that no

frames are loaded and move on to the next frame (beginning movie introduction).

Later on in the movie, after filling out a form and sending it to the server, the

CGI will send a reply back to the index.html, run the actions in the first frame of

the movie.swf and notice that the form frame has been loaded and thus it will send

the movie to the reply frame (skipping the introduction). Simple.


This only works for one reply frame, for example you can't have a "reservation

form" reply and a separate "order form" reply. May be there is a variable mixture

that can work with this.




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