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Communication Between Two Flash Movies On A Html Document.
Hello everyone!
My little question of the day:
I want to put two movies on a html document. In the first one I want to put a button that makes the second movie do something.
How can I do this?
I read a couple of things about the fs command and I believe this would be the way to go. But my problem is that I work on a mac and I read that it doesn´t work on this platform.
So... is there a solution? Because my web site is getting very "pretty" but I need this to work to finish it.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Agur.

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Hi all, I am having a problem getting Flash to consistently communicate across html frames between movies.
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What I want to happen is for top to send a function call and parameters to left, and then have left execute that function.

I have tried using ExternalInterface with no success (by placing function calls within Javascript and calling those), and have also tried using localConnection with very inconsistent results.

With localConnection, I had gotten it to work once, however I cannot pin down why it stopped.
Basically, I had this code for localConnection:
in the sending swf (studentcenterTop.swf)

Code:
var sending_lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
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in the receiving swf (studentcenterLeft.swf) I have a dynamic textfield (with fonts embedded) on the stage with the name display_txt and the following code:

Code:
var receiving_lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
receiving_lc.changeDisplay = function() {
display_txt.text = "changed";
};
receiving_lc.connect("lcOverFrames");
This worked a couple of times, but recently stopped, plus when the page gets refreshed (this is part of an LMS UI that controls content in the main frame) it will no longer work, and I have to clear the cache to 'reset' it.

I am not picky about how I communicate between the frames, I simply need a way to do so reliably, if this involves javascript, cool, if it involves only localConnection, cool, but I cannot get anything to work consistently, and my deadline is fast approaching.
I have searched quite a bit around the web and these forums, but I can't seem to make any of the suggestions that I have seen work for me.

I appreciate any help.

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I have built an HTML document and inserted 2 seperate flashmovies. My question is, how can I synchronize the start of both movies so that they start at the same time when they are both done loading. They differ in filesize (20kb and 80kb), so right now one movie starts playing slightly earlier than the other. Not good.

I know it can be done with fscommand's and javascript, but unfortunately I don't know how. I'm not very good at scripting. Can someone help me? Or is there a standard script I can download somewhere?

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i have two flash movies on one html site, one is the top banner, the other is the menu at the bottom, in between these movies there's HTML. Now here's what i need: when i push a button in the menu at the bottom, i want something to happen in the top banner (i.e. a dynamic textfield, that changes in the name of the page when a button is clicked). Is this in anyway possible?

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I have a HTML page which contains 2 flash movies.

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I'm sure there are lots of people who have already answered this question here, but I can't seem to pick the right words to search for.

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I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask this in, but I'll give it a try.

I want to add a preloader for a flash file in HTML. The most obvious way to do this would of course be to add this inside the flash file. However, this is not an option since there are already approx. 200 flash files we need a preloader for.

My next idea is to instead use a gif picture on the HTML page when the flash is loading and then hide it and show the flash file when its loaded. My question is, how can this be done?
Are there any events or properties on the flash file that indicates if the file is done loading? I've added the flash file to the html page like this:

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When the user clicks one of the 5 buttons in page1.html the browser has to go to page2.html and the flash there has to go the page corresponding to the selected button.

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Iâ€™m helping develop in Flash CS3 an online soft skills training that involves students viewing a short video than answering a multiple choice question. After viewing several videos and answering the related questions the student is given on overview of how they did in a test summary page.

Delivery
Plan is to have each video and questions in a single Flash file embedded in an html file. The end test summary page will be delivered in html.

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