Re: FLASH: Link to SWF and label

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 02:42 PM 7/2/99 +0100, you wrote:

>

>So my question is this, can you somehow using the Hawaii map FScommand

>technology (which I am currently using) but call a HTML page containg a

>.swf into a frame, lets say the bottom frame for example and then goto a

>specific frame in the movie you have loaded.

>


The limitation is that you cannot command a Flash movie to go to a

particular frame until that frame has loaded. Also, you cannot use If Frame

Is Loaded to test one movie from another. But you can have the newly

loading movie use a continuously looping movie clip to test itself for If

Frame Is Loaded. Meanwhile the movie can be parked in a blank frame. When

it is loaded to where it needs to be, it can let the first movie (in the

other frame) know that it's ready, and the first movie can then command it

(via FS Command and JS) to go to the appropriate frame. You would do this

by triggering a stalled movie clip in the first movie; the movie clip would

be told to play, and in doing so it would issue the proper command to the

new movie. 


Obviously, the only reason for this setup, rather than just creating the

second movie to start with the frame you're calling, is if that second

movie is loaded in various situations and needs to start in different

frames according to when and where it's loaded from. In that case, the

second movie can be set up with as many If Frame Is Loaded conditions as

are required by the various situations in which it is loaded, and the

result of each If Frame action would be to communicate with a different

movie (the movie that loaded it). Hence it would send out a bunch of

communications that would be "lost" (because their targets are missing) and

one communication that would be received (by the movie that made the load

call). Make sure you don't generate JS errors with those "lost"

communications, however.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn.


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