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Subject: Re: FLASH: Frames
From: Brandon Wolf
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 16:06:30 +0000 (GMT)

I know of one way that you can try, it calls Label X instead of Scene X or
Frame X, but it could be a good foundation for what you are trying to do.
http://www.flashzone.com/FLAs/advanced/advanced.html
2nd Example, called "Calling Labels Across Frames"

Hope this helps,
Brandon
FlashZone
www.flashzone.com

-----Original Message-----
From: dennis [dot] l [dot] holfelsatawo [dot] com <dennis [dot] l [dot] holfelsatawo [dot] com>
To: flasheratshocker [dot] com <flasheratshocker [dot] com>
Date: Monday, November 09, 1998 9:21 AM
Subject: FLASH: Frames


>I have worked with Flash to do some animated menu's that utilize FSCommands
>(JavaScript). The reason we don't use more Flash is that we have been
>unable to get what I refer to as "inter-Frame-Flash communication to work"
>nor have we seen it work on any site. Let me explain:
>
>THE SCENARIO: Say you have two frames with 1 being a Menu.swf that takes
>up a quarter of the viewing area. The other frame, called Content is
>filled with typical text and graphics. Lets assume the Menu.swf begins
>with a scene called Main that builds 4 main menu items. The user clicks
>Main button 2 and this uses a "target URL" to load a new page in the
>Content frame and then runs scene SubMenu2 in the Menu.swf. The four
>buttons originally visible in scene Main are NO longer visisble.
>
>OUR DILEMMA: The text in the content area contains links that should make
>a different SubMenu scene play. We have found no way to get the playback
>head to moved to a discrete location in an "already" loaded and displayed
>swf by a click in the content. We can get it to "play" but what we really
>want is to get it to play "scene X" or "frame Y" where X and Y are
>variables. Is there anyway to do this without having the movie reload?
>Your advice is appreciated and at the least maybe you can confirm that it
>can't be done at this point.
>
>Thank You
>Dennis
>
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