Flash :: Communicate With Loaded SWF

Communicate To A Loaded .swf At A Target.
Hello all,

I have a .swf movie loaded at a placeHolder_mc. I want to be able to tell the loaded movie at placeHolder_mc to play when a user pushes a button (on the _root timeline). I can't figure out how to target the clip.
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Better explaination:

maintimeline.---->placeHolder_mc
        &n bsp;       &nbs p;           |
        &n bsp;       &nbs p;           |
        &n bsp;       &nbs p;           clip.swf( this is what I want access to.)

hows do you "talk" to the loaded .swf?
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I hope I have been clear.

Thank you.

ActionScript 3.0: How To Communicate With Loaded Movies?
Hi,
I have a site I am building in AS3. I have a main SWF, site.swf, that loads the subsections as seperate SWF's only when a user clicks on them (to save on initial load time).

For my subsections, I need to be able to communicate with the SWF that loaded it. In AS2, this was simple enough - just say something like _parent._parent.gotoAndPlay("something"), and step up enough levels to speak to movie clips in the main SWF.

Trying to do this in AS3, however, results in errors such as this when trying to compile my subsection SWF:

Code:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
... because it thinks I am trying to communicate with something that doesn't exist. The result is that I can't compile my subsection SWF's.

For example, I am unable to reference a variable in the main SWF using this code in my subsection SWF:

Code:
myText = this.parent.parent.parent.parent.sectionTitle;
Surely there must be a way to do this? Can I at least tell the Flash 9 Alpha compiler not to stop when it runs across this?

Thanks,
Graham

How To Make 2 Loaded Swfs Communicate With Each Other?
This has quite a long background history, so I`ll first ask the question: how can I make a loaded SWF file activate a function inside another loaded SWF file - both in the same 'parent' movie, domain and directory - when the user clicks a 'link' on the first swf?

I'm new to actionscript, been only working with it for 2 months and I've been learning on the go. So far, so good, flash cs3 help has been useful, as well as this forum and other sites. My project is a website, no innovations, just simple info and light animations.

The site should have an intro page (I called it index), a preloader, then the actual site (home), with links to each specific area (pages). In home, a small slideshow movie clip should always be on the upper left corner looping images until the user clicks a link to a page, when the slideshow fades away. With this briefing, I made a file for the index, and a uiloader in it would get the home file and that 'should' be it.
My stage resizing event listener was working perfectly on home - standing alone - moving the slideshow exactly as it should. But when home was loaded inside index, the slideshow moved way more than it should never getting in the right place. After various unsuccessful attempts, I decided to move the slideshow into its own swf and load it directly in the index, together with the home file. This way, I managed to make it relocate precisely, but got myself the problem I'm asking here. I need to get the slideshow to fade away when the user clicks a page link, but they are separate files.

I tried to use a Loader.content based function, located at the index, but figures Flash help was not exactly clear on how I had to use it properly, so I did not manage to get it to work. It always reported an unspecified property.
I searched around here and over the net, found similar problems and their solutions but could not resolve my problem. I think this is a little too specific...
Does anyone has any suggestions?

Thank you all very much in advance for this, and for the other things I've already got to solve thanks to these forums.

Communicate Between Two SWF
Can someone help me about how to interface two SWF and send commands like geturl play or stop ? I know is with actionscript but....where can i found informations ?

Swf To Communicate With Another Swf
I have two swf's on one html page. I would like one swf to contain a password and when the password is correctly entered, I'd like it to target a scene in the other swf. Is this possible in flash 4 or 5? I know you can tell target in the same parent movie for other clips in that movie, but how about seperate movies? Please help! ASAP please!

Thanks in advance,

P.O.T.U.S.

2 Swf's Communicate?
hi,
I have 2 swf's
1.swf and 2.swf
1 is very long, 2 is very short
so that creates an L shape ... but since im already trying to use some HTML on the compliment of the L shape so i cant make them both into 1 block or 1 swf ... i have 2 make them 2 ...

I just want 2 have a button in 1.swf to simply LOAD 2.swf NEXT to 1.swf (& not over it) .... thats all
it sounds so simple but i just cant figure out a thing

I heard that Flash MX can make 2 swf's communicate but i never found that in the help .... also if the only way is JS can someone make up a mock file 2 show me the exact coding needed to acheive this interaction?
Thanks

Communicate
I've got a movie that loads another .swf movie into it. Now I need to make the loaded movie do something based on a variable I defined in the root of the main movie.

how???

thanks

Communicate Between Swf's?
I have learned the very helpful load movie clip into target function. Is it possible to load say an swf of buttons and have those buttons alter something in another swf movie?

THanKS

Communicate
Can someone tell me how to send info from one .swf to another .swf?
for example: sending mouse coordinates to an other .swf

here is a website witch uses it. (or is it a verry large .swf
who can tell me?)

Madrhino

amazing site not?

MM just realised that they just filled everything up with flash
can someone explain how?
and how to make something following with delay (I know it's with coordinats but not exactley )

Thanx

How To Communicate (SWF-SWF)?
Hi!
How to communicate (SWF-SWF)?
I want the "1.swf" control the timeline on "2.swf", so the "1.swf" changing the frame on "2.swf" to 2.
HOW TO DO THAT?
(FULL GUIDE PLEASE)

How To Communicate (SWF-SWF)?
I posted this in the AS3 and Flash CS3 forums, but didn't got the right answer...

Read carefully:
How to communicate (SWF-SWF)?
I want the "1.swf" control the timeline on "2.swf", so the "1.swf" changing the frame on "2.swf" to frame-number 2.
HOW TO DO THAT?
(FULL GUIDE PLEASE)

Communicate Between AS3 - AS2
Hi Friends,

I created a template in AS3 which loads as2 swf's then an interactivity done in as3 will follow that.
In this case, i have only as2 swf's, so no local connection can be done. Is there anyother way to communicate with AS3 template with AS2 swf.

I need to track the total frames of the loaded swf ?

Communicate With C/C++
Is AS3 capable of calling functions that were created in C/C++, like the jni of java?

Swf Communicate
How can send variables from a swf1 to swf2?
THX

Communicate Between To Swf’s
Hi you all,

I’m trying to let to swf’s to communicate.
I have one main SWF and loaded a SWF in the main SWF.
Now I want to play a label in the loaded SWF by clicking a button in the main SWF.

For now this is my button code:

Code:
on (release) {
_level0.movieName = "news";
if (_level2) {
_level2.play(“fade”);
}
}
As you can see the name of the label is ‘fade’. When I test the button the loaded movie plays from the beginning instead of playing from the ‘fade’ label.

Hope anyone can help me.

How Do I Get 2 Swf's To Communicate With Eachother?
Does anyone know how I can get 2 swf's to communicate with eachother? specifically, I have 1 swf that when I click a button, I want the action to occur in the other swf.

HELP!!

Is It Possible To Communicate Between 2 Different SWF Files?
let's say i've got a frameset with 3 frames. two of them containing flash movies and one with html content:

frame1-flash | frame2-html | frame3-flash

what i want is that both flash movies start at exactly the same time 'cause the movies together form an animation, a symmetry.

i guess both movies will have to contain some sort of preloader, but they will need to communicate with each other in order for them to start their "main scenes" at exactly the same time.

any help is much appreciated 'cause at the moment i'm puzzled.

Swf's And Levels... Can They Communicate?
can seperate swf's comunicate with each other on seperate levels?
can i tell level 5 to load level 1.
and after loading then have level 5 go to a frame?

thanks,
julian

How To Communicate Between 2 Levels
Hi you all,

An item in the main movie, has to be scrollable (Slide on x position)
First, it works fine because I have put the buttons to scroll in the same movie.

Now I have placed the buttons in another movie and level (2) and the whole script does not work anymore.

Here is de code:

Item that has to move/scroll:
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play ();
current_x = getProperty("../extreme", _x);
dif_x = current_x-/:xpos;
setProperty ("../extreme", _x, current_x-(dif_x/5));
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Button in other level, that have to make in move/scroll:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
on (release) {
/:xpos = 780;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What do I wrong?

Communicate Between Swf Files
Hi,

is it possible to communicate between swf files?

I have a MAIN swf file. In this MAIN swf file I load two external swf files with loadMovie.

OK, I want to know, if the first movie is really loaded!

Can I do something like “_root.mc1.IsLoaded = 1” ?????

I think no?!?!?!?! Must I do it with a “Java Script” ????

Thanks
David

Communicate Between Swf Files
Hi,

is it possible to communicate between swf files via variables?

I have a MAIN swf file. In this MAIN swf file I load two external swf files with loadMovie.

Can I do something like “_root.IsLoaded = 1” in the first swf file, and in the MAIN swf file I check this variable with “if(_root.IsLoaded == 1) …” ??????

Thanks
David

Can Swf Movie Communicate With Each Other?
If there are two or more swf movie running, is there any method to allow them to have communication with each other? For example, if I press a button on 1.swf, the background of 2.swf will be changed, and 2.swf will inform 1.swf its background is changed by showing a message on 1.swf...is it possible?

Thanks for your kind help.

Using ASP To Communicate With Flash
Hi All ---

I was hoping someone could assist me as I have recently just begun to attempt to use ASP to communicate with the Flash object. I am nowhere near an expert in ASP, but I certainly understand the language and have used it to build database driven websites. With that in mind can someone assist me with the following:

I wish to pass information from an ASP page to the Flash object. For example, how would ASP have a movie clip stop or start playing based upon a conditional event in ASP. For this thread's sake lets assume the following:

Flash Movie: Movie.swf
Movie Clip: myMovieClip

Can someone provide an example of the code I might use?

Also do I need to use a loadVariables action if I am going to load data into the flash movie or can I simply "push" it from the ASP page?

I hope this is clear and if not please let me know and I will do my best to provide more details.

Thanks to any and all responses.

Cheers!
SDL

Communicate Between 2 Different Swf Files ?
hi,
i am developing a website which is a combination of flash and php.
I am using an html frameset, in one frame i have a flash navigation menu, and i would like to have in another frame some kind of "tooltip movie". For example when mouse is over one button of the menu, the tooltip movie gives details on what can be found there.
But as long as the tooltip movie runs in a different frame, it is in a different swf file, and i can't figure out how to pass the events from the menu swf to the tooltip swf.

Is that possible and if yes how ?
thanks for any help

Is It Possible To Communicate With DLL`s With Flash?
I wonder if it`s possible to let Flash communicate with DLL`s?

I have an assignment at my university to make a "plug-in" for Flash
so it`s able to use Bluetooth API. This to let designers make prototype applications that can communicate via Bluetooth.

If this ain`t possible i`m in deep ****

Can Flash And C++ Communicate
I am fooling around with a little idea and i was wonderng if anyone knew if flash could talk with C++, via actionscript or something?
any ideas?

Can Not Communicate With Instance ?
hi all~

i met some problem and have no good idea just now. the situation is, i have a class which which load external xml source and if loaded the instance property named "__loaded" will set to true, but i just find onLoad handler can not communicate with members inside class !!! here is my code:

Code:
class Words
{
private var __source:XML;
private var __loaded:Boolean;
public function Words(source:String)
{
__source = new XML();
__source.ignoreWhite = true;
__source.load(source);
__source.onLoad = function()
{
// Can reach here !!!
parseSource();
__loaded = true;
}
}
private function parseSource():Void
{
//
}
}

within onLoad handler, both parseSource and __loaded can not be reached, any suggestions ?

Communicate From 1 Flash SWF To Another SWF
Hello everyone,

Is this possible -
- to have 2 Flash SWFs loaded in a single web page and
- a action on one Flash SWF updates the other SWF?
For example:
one SWF shows 'square' and 'circle' as buttons and
a click on 'square' button to show a square figure in second
Flash and to work similarly for 'circle'.

If its possible, any such example that exhibits such communication (need not be the example that I mentioned of), will help me learn and develop such a pair of SWFs.

Any help in this inter-Flash files' communication is appreciated.

Have a nice day.

Thanks in advance,
-Venky.

Geting Swf's To Communicate With Each Other
hi im tryin to get 2 swf to communicate somehow with each other
ive read somethings but just cant seem to get it im kinda new to scripting i have flash mx anyway what i want is to have a swf "in a left frame of a html page" goto and play a specific frame in another swf "in a top frame of a html page" with a button clicked in the first swf.
any help would be greatly appreacited thank you

What Is The EASIEST Way To Communicate Between SWF's?
Again, I'm looking for the EASIEST way to communicate between two SWF's on the SAME machine???

thx!

Communicate With HTML?
Hi,
I am giving a first try to actionscript 3.0. I just bought the big Essential ActionScript 3 book, but barely started at the moment.
I have a project coming that would involve Flash and HTML.
A portfolio site where the navigation would be Flash, click on a button, have an image appear. The part I am wondering if possible is to have a descriptive text show, in the HTML page, outside the .swf. So, basically, each time you change the image in the .swf, it must change the HTML text. I am very basic in HTML..
I know it would be possible to have the .swf load a different url, but is it possible to change the HTML text without changing the page url?
I hope I am clear enough.

If this is at all possible, any logic on how to do it or tutorial..or section in my big book...(I cant seem to find it in it, but I havent been through all yet.)

Thank you

Class To Communicate Between Them
ok so i'm new to actionscript, and i have this class Display.as witch is my main actionscript file, and then i have other class that control button action, now i created a new class that represents the body in witch text would appear, i have created a tween to animate in the body, now i want to tell the button that wen i hit it, the body must tween back up... aint clear iknow but if anyone figures it out!!

all i want is that my button1.as to control the tween in square.as

thanks in advance

Communicate Across Levels.
Is there a way to go to a labelled frame of a movie(swf) in a different level without targeting a movie clip.

ie. I have a movie on level 4, This movie consists of a menu. The menu actions should tell the movie in level 0 to go to a frame label.

Possible?????

Chris

Communicate Between Two SWFs
Ive got two swf files in one html page one menu.swf and two the main.swf is it possible to get the menu.swf to move the timeline in the main.swf iam not a programmer and have looked it up on the net but it might as well be written in russian please can some one help me?

Go on feel sorry for thick people

Communicate Swfs Within An Swf
Well my main issue here is that I have 2 separate swfs being loaded into 1 main fla file using loadmovie().

They are both media players with a basic play/pause button and a progress/slide bar. I want it sso when a use presses play on one slides the bar on player 2, then player 1 will pause and its slide bar will stay in place.

I was thinking the best way would be to have a stopping function in each player that can be called from the global swf depending on which player's play button is is and so on.

I could do w/o the slide bar on the mini players, but Ive tried the progressbar component to no luck (it seems to keep up with loading and not progress).

I feel like this should be easy and I've gotten myself into a thought pattern thats totally off. Any ideas? Thanks.

-Eric

How Can I Communicate Between Classes?
I have a class that plays a sound. I have another class that moves the timeline one frame. I would like the class that plays a sound to use the other class to move the timeline one frame. The code that I have gives me an error. Below is the error and the two classes. Thanks ahead of time for any responses.

Error:
1136: Incorrect number of arguments. Expected 1.

SoundMove.as:

Code:
package lesson
{
import flash.display.DisplayObjectContainer;

public class SoundMove extends DisplayObjectContainer
{
public function SoundMove()
{
MovieClip(DisplayObjectContainer(root)).gotoAndPlay(MovieClip(DisplayObjectContainer(root)).currentFrame + 1);
}
}
}
SoundMain.as:

Code:
package lesson
{
import flash.events.*;
import flash.media.Sound;
import flash.media.SoundChannel;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.media.SoundMixer;

public class SoundMain extends Sound
{
private var micURL:String = "micRec1.mp3";
private var song:SoundChannel;

public function SoundMain()
{
var rqst:URLRequest = new URLRequest(micURL);
var soundFactory:Sound = new Sound();
soundFactory.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
soundFactory.addEventListener(Event.ID3, id3Handler);
soundFactory.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);
soundFactory.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progressHandler);
soundFactory.load(rqst);
song = soundFactory.play();
}

private function completeHandler(event:Event):void
{
trace("completeHandler: " + event);
SoundMove();
}

private function id3Handler(event:Event):void
{
trace("id3Handler: " + event);
}

private function ioErrorHandler(event:Event):void
{
trace("ioErrorHandler: " + event);
}

private function progressHandler(event:ProgressEvent):void
{
trace("progressHandler: " + event);
}
}
}

OOP How Do I Get 2 Classes To Communicate?
I have 3 separate classes. a main class and 2 objects. How do i get 1 class to refer to a specific instance of another class?
for example.
i want my Map class to reference a specific instance of the Player class. the instance is named firstPlayer. how would the Map class affect firstPlayer?

i know that we use this.whatever to reference the class at hand but how do you reference other classes?

thank you.

Communicate From An Mc To Root
I have a section in a movie with a label on the maintime line named "Projects."

All of the actual 'stuff' for that section is on the stage namely, an flv player and some links to 9 projects.

Now, in another section entitled "clients," at that area I'm loading the actual clients_mc from the library onto the main stage.

What I need to do is create a link from, say client A so that it will gotoAndPlay("Projects") and then load the flv for client A and play.

When navigating to Projects and clicking on links for each video, all is well. I can also jump from say, client A in the clients_mc back to the label Projects but of course after the jump, the code stops executing from clients_mc.

I was thinking I need to somehow pass a string of the flv I need but that hasn't worked either.

I tried:

Code:
function bringIn(vid:String) {
myVid._visible=true;
soundPlayer.doStop();
myVid.autoPlay = true;
myVid.contentPath = vid;
myVid.play();
}
But I can't seem to be able to call the function only when arriving at that frame via the clients_mc.

Code:
seehenson.onRelease = function() {
_level0.gotoAndStop("projects");
}
This will navigate from the clients_mc to the root timeline but I'm not sure how to then and only then play a particular video from where I clicked?

Besides adding frames and making each vid have its own frame which I'd rather not do.

Communicate With An Application
hi there!
i have made an application in visual basic and embedded a flash movie in it. What i am actually trying to do is that i create some buttons in flash (which is the whole movie ebedded in VB) and when i click some button I want a visual basic form to open in the same application. The solution i thought of was that if somehow i can pass on a variable(string) to the main form in VB then i can open up the required form. One thing which i landed upon was create a text file in the hard disk which would contain the required variable. I was able to do that by FS command :

on (release) {
fscommand ("save", AAA+".txt");
}

this saves a text file by that particular as "variable-name".txt

but is there some other way that i communicate with this application of mine without creating a text file? So that whenever i click the button made in flash it sends the variable string to this application and it acts accordingly
pls help....it's urgent!

LoadMovieNum Communicate
I loaded a new swf file using the loadMovieNum("myswf.swf", 1).

Now the question is, is it possible to have the two swf's communicate with each other? For instance, if I'm in the second swf, I'd like to control the timeline of the first.

Thanks!
JJ

How To Communicate Between Flash & C++
Hello all,
I am developing an app for MAC OS X using C++ Flash as UI. what I exactly need is the communication between Flash & C++. how can I accomplish it?(using ExternalInterface or any other way is there... like shared object or XMLsockets?) I want to transfer data(string format) vice versa in flash & C++, I know Its possible to communicate between two swfs using LocalConnection API but how to communicate C++ with flash on local sytem or on remote system.
any tutorial/code snippet is greatly appreciated.
please help me out!

Getting PHP To Communicate With FLASH
Im having some issues getting my flash contact form to communicate with my form.PHP I have been scouring tutorials but im just not getting what exactly goes into the PHP file. My variables are different from the tutorials I have seen. This is what I have

I guess my main question is how do I set up the PHP file so that it can work with my flash files?

Attach Code

stop();

// -------------------<send form LoadVars>------------------- \
var gatherForm:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

function sendForm() {
gatherForm.email_to = "fit4life@bsfc.com";
gatherForm.visitor_comments = userMessage.text;
gatherForm.visitor_name = userName.text;
gatherForm.visitor_email = userEmail.text;
gatherForm.visitor_Phone = userPhone.text;

gatherForm.send("form.php","POST");
}
// -------------------</send form LoadVars>------------------- \

//--------------------<submit button AS>---------------------\

// onRelease
this.submitBtn.onRelease = function() {
if (userEmail.text == "" || userName.text == "" || userMessage.text == "" || userPhone.text =="") {
gotoAndStop("error");
} else {
sendForm();
gotoAndStop("correct");
}
}

//--------------------</submit button AS>---------------------\

How To Communicate Flash With Jsp
hi,
I'm new in AS3 programming and wanted to know, if somebody knows how to
communicate flash with jsp using actionscript 3 ???

I have written a jsp-script.
There is a variable in this script which I want to send to flash (AS3).
So how can I give flash (AS3) the ability to get the value of this variable, defined in my jsp-script???

I think, there must be a way to enable flash (AS3) to get the variable :) but I found no solution yet...

My JSP-Script looks like this:
------------------------------------------------------------
<%! String text =" "; %>
<%
text ="SOME TEXT!!! ";
out.println("&text = " + text);
%>
------------------------------------------------------------

Now, I want my AS3-Script to read the variable 'text'... but i dont know how to do???
It would be very helpful for me, if someone would give an example...

thanks...

Best Way To Communicate With MySQL?
Hello everyone,

I'm here seeking some advice for an application I'm about to build. This application hopefully will be used in the recording studio facility where I work. The purpose of the application is to store information about each studio session. I've never build an application of this kind so I'm not sure about what would be the best coding practices. I think I have enough AS skills to create such a project, but since I'll be using a MySQL database to store ad retrieve data for the first time, I was wondering if you guys could give me some advice. I alredy know how to use PHP and LoadVars to send data from Flash to MySQL, and also how to send back the data in xml format. What I'm not sure is how to retrieve data for different queries. Would be better to create a XML object for each different query with a different LoadVars object for sending the right variable for a particular query, or is there a better way to make the whole process more efficient? I hope this make some sort of sense. Thanks in advance for the help

-Luca

Component Communicate With Xml
hi.

i've got an xml document that i load into flash and parse the info i need into an array. it works great.

i've got a calendar component that i've built separately that i want to read from the xml file (and then perform some actions based on what it finds).

i'm confused on how to make the connection between the two in the way that i need them to communicate.

here's how i parse the xml into arrays:

ActionScript Code:
ThisNode = rootNode.childNodes[i];ArrDate[i] = ({month:ThisNode.attributes.month, day:ThisNode.attributes.day, year:ThisNode.attributes.year});

now -- i imagine i create a function within my component class that will read the info from that array. is that right? i've also been told that creating an inspectable property in my component to communicate with my xml file will work, too. i'm lost. all i know is that in the end i have to turn over this calendar that reads from xml to another developer to put into a larger piece of software.

any help would is very much appreciated.

thanks. fumeng.