Re: FLASH: Talking to non Flash frames

[Erik 'Gearik' Mattheis]

That seems like a cool idea, but the best way that occurs to me to work it

out would be to do it backwards - have the Flash movie control the swapping

of the gifs. That way you would avoid the possibility of the script loading

a new .swf file before it's done playing:


Instaed of just loading the flash file into it's frameset, load another

frameset which contains a hidden frame in which you could call .js files

that would swap the gifs in the header frame at certain points in the

timeline.


Like if you wanted to perform a function in the "header" frame called imgOn

for an image named "home"  in the first document in the frameset, the whole

.js file would be


top.frames[0].imgOn('home')


or perhaps you could use javascript: parent.frames[0].imgOn('home') as the

url, that would actually be better.


Get it?


>"Can Flash talk to the javascript in a header frame from the body frame?

>

>In a 3 frame layout I produced a teaser Flash screen that sits in the

>body frame. The left and header frames have already been built with

>gif's and HTML. The header frame runs through a sequence showing the

>selection and deselecting of gif buttons using javaScript. The coder

>wants to show a button highlighting in the header frame (non Flash) and

>have it load a .swf in the body and so on in a loop. I've read the doc

>and it seems like it's possible if everything is built with Flash, but,

>I'm just feeling a little brain dead now... I know I can call the

>JavaScript using the

>FS command but how do I keep track of which button I'm highlighting  in

>the header? ... Is there a tutorial ?

>

>

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