Re: Using the FSCommand to trigger Director events

[John Dowdell]

At 5:01 PM 7/7/98, Dan Riley wrote:

>Does anyone know how to utilze this properly?  The way that the

>literature explains it one should be able to drop a lingo event handler

>into a Director movie form an onclick event in Flash 2 swf file.  This

>just doesn't seem to work.  I get the phrase message "== Clickon Script

>for sprite: 1",  then "== MouseUp script" but no message indicating what

>handler has been dropped or anything.  anyone know how this works, or

>even if it will work?



I'm not positive of what's being described. I do know that it's pretty

straightforward for Flash to send events to Director and vice-versa. But

I'm not sure whether Flash is in Director here, or whether both are

actually in a browser in those tests.


But then again, you mention the Lingo "clickOn()" function, which handles

events which originate inside Director, rather than inside a Flash sprite.

But I also see the term "FSCommand" which the Flash plugins and control use

to communicate with various web browsers. I'm a bit unsure of the context

there.


If you're by chance using the Flash Asset Xtra within Director, then it's

easiest to use the "event:" or "lingo:" prefixes for an event within a

"GetURL" action. You can then catch these messages within behaviors dropped

atop the Flash sprite once it's within Director.


Is any of this of use there...?


jd







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