Flash :: HTML->SWF Communication?

SWF's And Html Communication-HELP
Hi!

Please help me with this problem.

I have a Home.htm page which contains a SWf movie. This movie has a button that opens an Intro.htm page.

I have an autorunner, so the Home.htm is out of the folder where the Intro.htm is stored.

Here is the folder structure in my D:drive

D:LandscapingProgram\Landscaping\ Newpages (begining with Intro.htm)
Home.htm
autorunner
autorun.inf

PROBLEM:

The button finds the Intro.htm when I run the program in my computer, but it doesn't when run in a different computer.

What is the proper script used for this program to run in any other computer?

Here is the script I used in the button

on(release){
getURL("D:\LandscapingProgram\Landscaping\NewPa ges\Intro.htm");
}

Thanks

German

Communication From Html To An Swf?
Alright, i hope somebody can help me out, especially considering that i'm a graphic designer with
i'm building this site and the client as usual is been a hassle. After developing half the site now he wants to have some extra features. So the problem is, i have a menu in flash that loads content into an iFrame. Now i need to make the swf go to a diffrent scene by pressing a button located in the iFrame and at the same time the button has to load content into its parent iframe, i've read several similar posts in different forums but none seems to work for me.

Any ideas??

Thanks in advanced!

Communication Beetwen FK & HTML?
How to get some parameter from HTML to FlashKit?

Why? I need to dynamicaly load backgrounds to SWF. SWF
is placed on the header of HTML, and every page in html must have different background. Must avoid frames in HTML.

How flash detect HTML page change and knows which one is it?

Tnx in advance

Cash

HTML To Flash Communication?
Hi everybody?
Any idea on how to make flash jump to an specific frame in a movie by pressing a HTML button?
Please answer ASAP !!!

Thank you very much !!
Best regards,
Strato

HTML To Flash Communication?
Hi !
Any idea on how to make a HTML button make flash jump to a specific frame by pressing on it?

Pls, write ASAP !!
Thank you very much!!

Best regards,
Strato

Flash Communication With Html?
I would like to pass variables between a flash movie and outside html pages. Here are a couple examples:

1) Read in values of an html table as variables in flash

2) Have a user enter an email address in flash and hit a button that sends the address to an html form field.

...stuff like that. Is it possible and, if so, where can I learn how. I don't even know where to start so any pointers would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot.

Communication Swf-->swf Versus Html?
hi guys!

i´ve a little problem to solve! i should do
two flash files which communicate versus javascript.

is that possible to do or just a stupid idea?

greetz
markus

Html To Flash Communication
i'm building a site that utilizes a flash menu but the rest of the page will be straight html. i'm trying to find a way to have the flash menu highlight what section you're in but everytime it goes to a new page it re-loads the menu and it starts from the beginning. is there a simple way to pass a variable from the html to the flash player that would tell the movie to highlight the section of the site the user is currently in?

your help is much appreciated.

Flash HTML Communication
www.catherinebellonline.com has flash navigation and HTML content in an HTML page. How? I need some code help please!!!

Communication Between Flash And HTML
Hi,
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:

<EMBED id="flashmovie" swLiveConnect="true" src="flashfile.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" WIDTH="520" HEIGHT="420" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>

Thanks!

/Mats-Lennart

Edit: We're using Flash 5

Flash/HTML Communication
In the past we have used Flash with HTML frames to allow us to have a flash menu and load the html pages into the frame. This way, the only flash we have to create is the menu and all else is static HTML and some PHP. I know that frames are not the most popular and I was wondering if there is another way to do this. What I need is to use a flash menu, click one of the flash buttons and load an HTML page into static HTML. Is frames the only way to do this?

Thanks... Bubba

Flash And Html Communication
I have a site with 2 pages: "page1.html" and "page2.html".

"page1.html" has html content and a menu with 5 buttons.

"page2.html" has a swf file embedded which has 5 pages.

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.

How can I tell flash which button the user pressed in page1.html ?

Thank you.

Communication Between Html Pages
I do have an SWF sequence of images in the main html page. In the second page I do have sections. Each section has a title of an image of the SWF file. The role of this section is to describe the image.
I trying to whenever I click on each image of the SWF in the main page, I should be directed to its description in the second page, meaning, that the second page should be loaded and its scroll down bar should go down and stop where the specific section (describing the image Iâ€™ve just clicked on) starts.

Flash To HTML Communication
Hi everyone.

Project
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.

Question
What Iâ€™d like to know is how can I get the flash video/question pages to communicate the test results to the end summary page.

Iâ€™m not much good at actionscripting, therefore any help would be much appreciated.
Also, is there anyway of converting a swf file back to a flash file, (fla)?

Thanks.
Michael

Flash And Html Communication?
Hey guys...I am trying to have my flash navigation recognize which html page it is on, and highlight the corresponding button. I think the code in the html will look like this
<param name="movie" value="header.swf?acbtn=advantaget">

where the active button is advantaget.

But I'm not sure about how to script the menu in flash. Any resources, examples, or insight would be greatly appreciated.

regards

Kevin

HTML And Actionscript Communication
I currently have flash a video player and would now like to include it in my web site on the html page. Therefore, my first question is could someone point me to some resources for embedding the file in the html page without needing the javascript the publish command creates to view the movie or post the best way to do this?

My second question is I would like to send information to that movie through HTML. Basically, have the links for the movies in the html then when they are clicked using php and ajax send the movie link to the embedded flash movie. How would I go about creating this type of communication with actionscript and how would I exract the variables in the flash file?

Example scenerio:
user clicks on "movie 1" link and that movie begins playing in the flash video player. User clicks on "movie 2" and that movie plays in the video player.

I already have the entire video player functioning correctly and a property that handles movie file.

All this will be done using flash cs3 and AS 3.0.

thanks

Swf To Swf Communication Within A Html File
Hi

I have created a html file , within there is a 4x4 table, and placed within this table are 2 separate .swf files ... topNav.swf which contains 6 buttons to be pushed, and mainNav.swf which has various sub menus to be revealed upon the selction made by the viewer in the topNav. Just to add a little more complication (maybe??) the mainNav.swf loads in an external .swf file into level3 and it is this .swf that i need to get a response from. Is this possible ?? Oh yeah, I also named the area within the DW doc where mainNav.swf sits as 'nav' so I had something to point the code at (not sure if this helps any or not but did it anyway!) I have tried various different methods but none seem to get a response so I cannot be doing it right, the last one went something like this:

on (release) {
tellTarget ("http://www.domain.co.uk/smallUpdateReloaded.html/nav._level3") {
gotoAndPlay("about", "aboutStart");
}
}

Hope you can help, thanks for looking even if you cannot, Ultrashock rocks regardless.

Furbs

Communication Between Flash And A Html Page
The problem is the following:

I´ve got a html page that opens a Flash movie.Then, I want this Flash movie to change the content of the previous window using a button.

How can I do that using ActionScript?

Thanks in advance

Communication Between Two SWF Movies In The Same Html Page
How can I make a communication between 2 SWF movies in the same html page? Lets say I have 2 SWFs in a html page. In SWF1 I have a button. When the user clicks on this button, some animation plays in SWF2 in the same page but in a different place.

Communication Between Html Frames-old Newbie
I am trying to create a button action that will simply show a graphic (upon rollOver)in a separate html frame that has flash content as well. I've been searching all day and all I've been able to come find in different forums or tutorials is to use LocalConnection or getURL. Although I understand how in different instances from a layman's p.o.v., I don't know which is correct or where to start or if either will help solve my problem.
PLease Help! Thanks!

Flash And Javascript Communication While On Html
im cramming for some work coming up tomorrow and hoping to scour out of you any good links or reads regarding using flash and javascript, any and all...

thanks
d

External Flash To HTML Communication
Can anyone give me some direction on how I would integrate relavant link options communicated from flash eventually to a page object...I have no idea where to look or what this would officially be called. Can you give me a step in the right direction with a white paper or even what function/technology I should be looking at.

Basically, I would like to set Cue Points in a video that would pass a variable to AMPHP or whatever which would then provide a JS?XML?PHP object to the HTML/PHP page that the video player is on...this link or object would hopefully then display on the page, but be dynamic so if new subject matter were in the video it would provide a unique URL or image.

I am not interested in having this link, image, ad whatever in the flash swf...external communication is what I am hoping can be achieved...any tutorial that you can think of would be greatly appreciated!!!

Communication Betwen Flash And Html Document
I have two frames 1.screen and 2.menu.

menu has the flash menu which contains buttons for which i want to use certain java script from other frame screen.

so what does action look like if i want to activate java script function in another (screen) frame.

ie. i have zoom in and zoom out function in screen frame.
menu buttons must activate one of those functions in other frame.

thank you

Inter-movie Communication In An HTML Frameset
I have two .swfs, one in frame1 (swf1) and the other in frame 2 (swf2) of an HTML frameset.

swf1 contains a list of links (a menu of sorts). swf2 contains an empty multiline text object.

I want to click on a link in swf1 and have that trigger the movie in frame 2 (swf2) to receive some variables from the swf1 movie and load some data in a textfield related to the link that was clicked.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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.

Communication Between 2 Flash Movies On The Same HTML Page
Hi All,
I have 2 flash movies on the same HTML page, that are actually in different frames. I have a flash movie at the top of my page which is a navigation bar (navbar.swf) and I have a flash movie on the left of my page that displays sub menu's (subnav.swf).
Now, what I would like to do is when a user clicks on a link in the main nav bar (navbar.swf) it tells the other movie (subnav.swf) to goto and play xxx frame (this will more likely be a frame label).

Can this be done ??????? And can anyone help me with this ????

Thanks for your time

All the best

Anadi (London)

Html(java) Communication With Flash Elements
I need to make a simple html button trigger an action in a flash movie on the same page. I pretty sure this would have to involve some java scripting, but anybody know how i would do this? The flash is on a layer over the html and I just need the button to make the flash movie trigger a goto action. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanx.

-Ryan

Communication Between Flash Movies Across Html Frames
Hi all, I am having a problem getting Flash to consistently communicate across html frames between movies.
I have 2 html frames that I am dealing with(cstLeft.htm and cstTop.htm) that need to have their flash movies communicate with each other . Each of these html frames has a flash movie embedded inside of them (studentcenterLeft.swf and studentcenterTop.swf respectively).
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();
sending_lc.send("lcOverFrames", "changeDisplay");
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.

Elf2112

Newbie Pls Help Reg Flash Listbox-html Textbox Communication
Can any one give me some clues abt doing the following:

Flash Part:
========
I will put a flash listbox in my page

HTML Part:
==========
I will put a HTML textbox and submit button on my page.

When I enter a value in the HTML textbox and click on the submit button, the value should be added to the flash listbox..

Will this be possible?

Thanks for any clues.
Sud.

PHP Communication
Hi !
I guess I am not the first with this problem but I have not found where the solution is... ;-(
I have a swf file that use some php programms to communicate values. Every thing is allright on my hard drive but I put the swf file on a http server, it apparently don't read datas...

Where is the solution ?

Thanx a lot...

Communication Between Two Swf.
I´ve got several text variables within a .swf and I´d like to know if there is a way to send them to another .swf

Thanks in advance

.swf To .swf Communication ?
I spent hours on this swf to swf thing and still failed. I will not give up but I could use some help?

IM trying to link My two flash movies(that are on the same page) together. I would like my bottom flash movie buttons to open a pop "upmenu" out of the top flash movie. I was told I could do this from nerdinside with this link http://www.polar-lights.com/fla/fla/sendcommand.zip
and I havent heard from him sense.

Here is my button code

on (release) {
// Notice the Decoy A / WIN1
if (_root.decoyA._currentFrame == 1) {
_root.draglines.swapDepths(10);
_root.WIN1.swapDepths(10);
tellTarget (_root.decoyA) {
gotoAndStop (2);
}
tellTarget ("WIN1") {
// Notice the WIN1
loadVariables ("text.txt", "text_box");
// load from txt file
loaded = 1;
}
} else if (_root.decoyA._currentFrame == 2) {
tellTarget (_root.decoyA) {
gotoAndStop (1);
}
tellTarget ("WIN1") {
loadVariables ("blank.txt", "text_box");
// loads a blank text file when closed to kill text
loaded = 0;
}
}
tellTarget ("click") {
gotoAndPlay (2);
}
}

How would I integrate the code from this zip file http://www.polar-lights.com/fla/fla/sendcommand.zip that (NURD INSIDE) sent me into this to add to my bottom buttons to link to Win1(which is my popup menu in the top flash section).

This is what I tryed so far:

on (release) {
getURL ("javascript:go()");
}
I added this to the top of my button code.

I also tried making my bottom buttons from the zip file and just deleting the starwars pic and loading....

Any comments would be appreciated.
Thanks,

Communication SWF To SWF
Alrighty

I have two SWF files (file1.swf and file2.swf), and I have two different frames (frame1 with frame1.html, and frame2 with frame2.html) each of them holding their respective swf's.

I want file1.swf to act as a menu... when a button is clicked, I want it to change the url of another frame: (name: main, filename: content.html) and at the same time, I want it to execute a function in file2.swf.

1. How would I make file1.swf talk to file2.swf?
2. How would I make the frame main change content.html to something else?

I realize that it requires javascript, but I seem to have trouble with my target= and it seems to pop a new window everytime...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Communication Between Two .swf's
Hi

just wandering if it is at all possible to have two .swf files, one with navigation, one with the content, then when the button id pressed in the navigaion .swf the content changes.

thanks

Communication Between Two .swf's?
Hi,

I was wondering if it's possible for two separate .swf files to exchange information and work together. If so, what's the basic idea behind it?

For example, if you had a webpage with two .swf movies in it (call them top.swf and bottom.swf), could you have a button in top.swf that changes the background color of bottom.swf when it's clicked?

Thanks!

Communication Between SWF's
Hey there,
I've hit a block and need a bit of knowledge...
I've got 2 sfw's on a page, I need to unload or goto and play to have it unload on keyframe inside it on sfw #2. When I choose a menuitem in #1 I should be able to do this right?

I've tried various method’s and no luck yet...

I thought that a simple
on(release)
Unload("http://site.com/#2.sw");

But no

Tried levels to but not in same movie so didn't figure this to work.any tips i'm probably missing obvious things but tries a bunch and no luck!

Help would be great!!!

Thanks for any i get!

mmeye

Swf To Swf Communication
I want to make two swf files to be communicated. for example::
I've two files "a.swf" and "b.swf". in a.swf i have one varaiable named "myVal" and itz value is "true"... ie (myVal="true").. i vant to pass this value from "a.swf" to "b.swf".... I've used LoadMoviennum , nbut it needs explorer... i want to do it with swf files alone

Communication Between 2 .swf's
Is it possible for a swf loaded in level 1 of the main swf to control the main swf?

I am trying to get a button in level 1 to make the main swf to goto frame 30.

I am using Flash MX

Communication
If I have two swf files on a web page...say one that lets the user enter information and another with shapes on it (for simplicity) is there a way for the two movies to communicate without having to sent info to a server and back? (directly) thanks!

mikell

.swf Communication
If you have 2 different .swf on the same HTML page, can these 2 .swf files send commands back and forth to each other using tell target?

IN other words can i have a button in one file that tells the other one to load the movie. OR can this only be done in the same movie?

Thanks..

Swf To Swf Communication
using flash mx
Does Anyone know how I can send a message from one swf (level_10) to change the value of a variable the caller swf (level_1)?
Cheers

Communication?
what do i need to do to get 2 separate swf 's to communicate with each other, if they are placed in two separate table cells on the same html page?

rat

XML Swf Communication
i have one XML doc, and two swfs
accessing it. the swfs are both loaded into MCs in the
main timeline. the nodes in the XML are grouped into
sections with children who are items with info in attributes.

Code:
EX:
<project label="Misc">

<item label="Mural" url="images/projects
/project_img.jpg" link="www" resp="info">My description is here</item>

</project>

one swf("navSwf") goes through the XML and generates a
menu of link using html textboxes and hrefs. thats
fine. the other swf("displaySwf") take the nodes info
and displays it. that works fine. on the nav hrefs i
currently have asfunctions(which do nothing, i am
thinking its the way to go), and i am trying to pass
the info of the selected item from the navSwf to
displaySwf.
EX:
in navSwf i click on item 3, so i need to tell the
displaySwf to access that item 3 node and
parse/display its attributes.

it is here where i am lost, how can i do this?

let me explain a bit about the swfs. in my main timeline i have 3 empty MCs. one loads a main nav swf, one that loads a sub nav swf, and one that loads content...so if i someone clicks on the "project section", the subnav project swf loads, parses the project XML. the content swf also parses the project XML to load the first project's info. which works fine, but the subnav swf is a html text box with hrefs, and i need to pass the node info that selected in the subnav to the content swf.

i may not be setting this up the best i understand,
but any help to get this working is greatly
appreciated. thanks

Swf Communication
I have a flash movie for navigation, and a movie for the page it self....is there anyway to have the navigation send as to the main page movie...like a gotoAndPlay......

I want to do an outro play on a hybrid site.......

Possible?

Help XML Swf Communication
bear with me here. i have one XML doc, and two swfs accessing it. the swfs are both loaded into MCs in the main timeline. the nodes in the XML are grouped into sections with children who are items with info in attributes. EX:

Code:
<project label="Misc">
<item label="IPS Mural" url="images/projects /project_img.jpg" link="www" resp="info">My description is here</item>
</project>

one swf("navSwf") goes through the XML and generates a menu of link using html textboxes and hrefs. thats fine. the other swf("displaySwf") take the nodes info and displays it. that works fine. on the nav hrefs i currently have asfunctions(which do nothing, i am thinking its the way to go), and i am trying to pass the info of the selected item from the navSwf to displaySwf. EX: in navSwf i click on item 3, so i need to tell the displaySwf to access that item 3 node and parse/display its attributes. it is here where i am lost, how can i do this?

i may not be setting this up the best i understand, but any help to get this working is greatly appreciated. thanks for taking the time to read this.

Swf Communication To Another Swf
I've been on the verge of tears with this... so.. I saved in it all back in mx and got rid of the 2004 coding (got rid of the loader (2004 loadMovieClip) and replace it with loadMovieNum), and figured I try my luck with mx... well, once again I've hit the wall and find myself dazed and confused. All I want to do is get the about button... hell, at this point, any button in the nav swf to communicate with the dataBox swf and gotoand play a label on the data_mc timeline.

frame1 of nav.swf :
code: stop();
trace("nav.swf file is LOADED and resides on Level: "+this._level);
about_btn.onRelease = function() {
trace(pic_mc);
_level15.pic_mc._alpha = 0;
//trace(_level15.data_mc); ???
_level0.data_mc.gotoAndPlay("textboxLG"); ???
// trace(data_mc);
};

I'm hoping, if ya get a free moment, you might help rescue me before I pull the rest of my hair out. : /
I attached the 3 fla's that I built and a text file that the data_mc utilizes..,can ya give these the once over and help me to get this working. I think once I overcome this situation... I can apply it to the other buttons and things down the road.

actually to be sure I stay within the upload limit..I have broken down the files into 2zip files ..
(var.fla, text.txt) 2.zip
(master.fla, dataBox.fla) 1.zip

GOD BLESS ALL that help me overcome this!