RE: Using the FSCommand to trigger Director events

[Dan Riley]

	Heres the whole (excedingly drawn out) story.  I need to use, in

order to avoid a LOT of backtracking, an onclick event in a SWF file

that's imported into Director to ultimately run off a CD to launch Word

and Powerpoint documents with an "open" command of some kind.  I have

tried creating a handler that I have put in the in the FSCommand command

line field in flash, hoping it would trigger the action in Director, but

when I click on the button once it's in director the message window

simply supplies me with "== Clickon Script for sprite: 1", and doesn't

even mention the actual handler.  I've never actually worked with both

in conjuction with one another, so am a bit vague on how they relate.

Does this make any sense?


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From: jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com [SMTP:jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com]

> Sent:	Tuesday, July 07, 1998 5:19 PM

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To: flashershocker [dot] com

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

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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?

> 

> 

> 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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