Re: Using the FSCommand to trigger Director events

[Michael Greenberg]

Just a question for JD and whoever else is in on this. Wouldn't the FAX be

the most straightforward approach? Of course the drawback is Flash 2 only

movies,but there is so much lingo supported here that I have found just

about anything is possible.Or is it just me?


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From: jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com (John Dowdell)

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To: flashershocker [dot] com

>Subject: Re: Using the FSCommand to trigger Director events

>Date: Tue, Jul 7, 1998, 7:18 PM

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>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?

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>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.

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>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.

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>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.

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>Is any of this of use there...?

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>jd

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