Re: FLASH: Flash's Limits

[John Croteau]

Hi Samir,


> I think this is what Philip was trying to say. He has done a backward

> compatability from Javascript from a page of HTML in another frame. If you

> look at his example clearly, he is quite right. He has managed to work

> around running multiple commands from an HTML page to control movie clips on

> a flash movie in the next frame.

> Quite nice effect by the way Philip. I m sure this could go a long way from

> here into making pages totally interactive with each other. people wont be

> able to tell the difference of what is going on between a page of Flash n

> HTML on seperate frames!

This is not something new at all.

There are many sites who have been doing this long before Flash 3 was

released.


>> http://www.teleport.com/~phillip/pnca/javascript/

>> I challenge anyone to build entirely inside Flash 

>> (it can't be done)

What he said was that you can't do this in Flash you also need

JavaScript.

I and others use JavaScript for many things but in this case Movie Clip

logic will work quite well and you do not need JavaScript to control the

animation as he did.

Many animations require JavaScript; an accurate Flash clock is one

example.

See my  Flash Clock and/or my tutorial on creating a Flash Clock.

http://www.FlashTek.com/

http://www.FlashCentral.com/Tech/Index.htm#Tutorials (The Flash Clock

Tutorial)


Furthermore his example only works with version 4 browsers and errors or

hangs with version 3 browsers. But to be fair there is JavaScript that

works with Netscape 3 and IE3 for Win32 browsers. JavaScript is used to

control Flash movies using Flash Methods (FS Command) but not all

browsers have this capability,

http://www.FlashCentral.com/Tech/Index.htm#Scripting

See Jon's Hawaii Demo under Scripting Demos for another example of inter

frame communication with Flash.


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FS Command capable Browsers:

Netscape 3+ - Windows 95/98/NT & Power Mac

MSIE 3+ - Windows 95/98/NT 

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