Flash :: Talking To Other Swfs...

Two Swfs Talking To Each Other
Hi there

Hokay, I have a main swf movie called 'main'. When this movie plays and gets to a label on the main timeline called 'pullin', we stop the playhead on the main time line playing and then pull in the swf called 'external' that plays within the 'main' swf.

The think I want to do is for the 'external' swf to play and when it finishes it tells my 'main' swf to continue to play.

I hope that I have explained this correctly...

Many thanks in advance

TASvinO

Swfs Talking With Another
I have a html, that have 2 swfs, inside, one in the top an another in the bottom of the page, i want that the one swf talk with another.

How???

Swfs Talking To Each Other (don't Want This)
Concerning a webpage with an swf main menu....
I have 2 swfs in different windows that were popped up using javascript functions (called from clicking on different btns in the main menu swf, which is embedded on the main html page).

Now, if I hit the mute sound btn in swf1, it mutes all sounds in swf2 and the main menu swf. What???? Where did that come from? Totally caught me by surprise. What, is my javascript falty? In any case, how in the world does muting a sound in swf1 (that is in a different window than swf2) completely mute sounds in both swf2 and the main menu swf? Or, how does the actionscript in swf1, that makes no reference to swf2 or main menu, affect the other 2 swfs? These files haven't yet been uploaded to a server, they're still on my HD.... if that's any help.....

Everything else works just fine...

Two SWFS Talking
I was wondering if anyone has a simple flash example of one flash SWF talking to another SWF. Anyone have FLAs or site tutorials they could share for learning

How To Get SWFs Talking To Each Other Across Framesets
I need streaming sound to play across several pages of a web site which I can handle with a frameset. However, I would like to have the audio controls in a separate SWF that I can have appear in different frames. It's a design layout issue. How do I get one SWF talk to an external (unloaded) SWF located in another frame?

Save me!

How To Get 2 Separate SWFs Talking?
I'm sure this has been addressed somewhere - if you have a link, please post it for me - if not.......

I have 2 swfs. One main header and one small graphic element on an html page (not a full flash site). The main header has a video player in which, works fine IN the main header. What I need to do, is make a second video play IN the main header when the smaller and separate swf is clicked on. Does that make sense?

Anyone have an FLA that will make this happen? Even if I could just get the timeline to move in the main header when the separate swf is clicked, that would be all I needed.

Any help is greatly appreciated!!!

Getting 2 Separate Swfs Talking
Hello , i'm having a bit of a problem here ... I'm working on a videochat app i'm having 2 swf launched on the same time one for member one for user how do i get the two talking? I have tried Local Connection ... no result. I have to get a function to execute on the member side when the user connects ... I have to mention the two are connected through Flash Remoting so ... any ideas?

LE: The 2 swf are in the same folder on a ftp server

'Talking' Between Different SWFs On Webpage...
Hey,
I know you guys are whizzes at this stuff, so I was hoping this would be an easy one for you. I have 2 SWFs, one with a list of 'content' and another that will display said content. The content is just different swfs. Think a list of cartoons and a player for those toons.

So lets say I have menu.swf, player.swf and movie1.swf. I only barely have an idea about how to do this.

menu.swf code:
sending = new LocalConnection();

myButton.onPress = function(){
sending.send("myConnection", "movie1.swf");
}

player.swf code:
receiving = new LocalConnection();

receiving.loadMovie = function(receivedMovie){
loadMovie("movie1.swf", "holder"); // 'holder' being the destination MC
}

receiving.connect("myConnection");

And Im looking at this knowing full well its garbage... Can someone please help me out?

Talking B/t Loaded Swfs
I'm having trouble talking between a .swf loaded via loadMovie and my main movie. I'm trying to tell the main movie what to do from a command on the loaded .swf, such as unload itself or gotoAndPlay. I'm not sure of the exact syntax or paths specifically. thanks, shagPun

Swfs Talking To Each Other Over Internet But On Different Computers?
Hi, I hope someone can help me with this; I'm part of a team making a collaborative game in Flash 8. I should say first of all that due to firewall problems we decided to put it all online, so it's not really a question of networking or anything (I think), just 5 different computers accessing swfs on the same website.

The game requires 4 individuals to be working on separate computers, whilst a 5th will project instructions etc on a screen. We are working with PHP and MySQL for some of it but I was hoping to get swfs talking directly to each other on the website for one particular stage.

It involves each user placing objects on their screen in kind of a 'stage' area, each user has a different object, when it is placed on their individual screen it needs to appear on the projection swf running on the 5th computer.

I hope this makes sense...I've got the localConnection stuff working but obviously 2 people running a 'sender' file and a 'receiver' file on different computers isn't working using this method, unless I'm missing something. So basically I need to know how different computers can communicate from swf to swf over the internet.

Any help with this, or any suggestions as to the architecture in general would be greatly appreciated, thanks for taking the time to read this

Louise

Multiple Swfs On The Same Page Talking To Each Other?
Hi All.

I'm currently working on a project where we need buttons on a navigation swf to load images into a second swf seperate from the first. the navigation swf includes button that will control when the user sees the images loading into the second larger and seperate swf. Is there a way for the two swf's to "talk" to each other when the user selects a thumbnail from the nav swf and loads it into the other swf on the same page?

Help would be much appreciated

Swfs Talking To Swfs...
I need some help!!!

I have a main movie (we'll call it swf1) that loads an external swf (swf2). I want to to work that when you click a link in swf2, it loads a new swf (swf3) into swf1 (swf3 doesn't replace swf2, it loads in addition to it).

Hope this makes sense. Any suggestions or help anyone could provide would be GREATLY appreciated!

[F8] Talking About Levels..controling Levels, Loading Swfs Into Levels, Etc
Hello, people!

I have a little tweaking i need to adjust.

To get to the point:

if (1==1)
{
loadMovieNum("test.swf", 3);

_level3.gotoAndStop(10);
}
else (...)

The problem is that on the if cycle, it doesnt consider the level as being loaded. I've tryed a while to wait for the level to load, nothing worked.

I've tested with a button to see if the level exist and is possible to control it and it is, with the onRelase.button etc etc.

Any ideas?

Ricardo

Thanks!

Talking To Al Of These Mc's
let say i wanna remove all of these mc's
or tell an mc to do something wich is nested in all of these mc's...
please help me

Talking Between Exe's
Is it possible for a button in one exe
to open up another exe?

Regards
Dogs Lipstick

.swf's Talking To Each Other?
Ok flash gods, I know that I've asked this before and just can't remember the , how to part!!!

I have my main movie index.swf - now in this loads logon.swf into it ... The problem I have is that I want the logon.swf (which is a password logon section) to tell the index.swf to go to next sceen which is "thankyou" this has to happen when you either press a button or press enter on your keyboard...

Thanks in Advance

D

Talking Between Swf's...
I would like a button press inside one swf to open another swf in a new IE window, whilst also changing the variable "writing" inside the newly opened swf (in new IE window) to a certain .txt file that contains the text i want displayed.

So, i have a template movie, with a variable "writing" that will be used many times over, and in each case, pointing to a different .txt file.

I have been able to do this, but only if the new swf loads inside the old one, but unable to do it when the new swf loads into a seperate IE window.

Any ideas?

G

.exe's Talking To One Another
I have two separate Flash MX executables(.exe) One executable launches the other. Is there a way to detect when the launch executable has been closed or exited, and then notify the other executable that this has happened and take the user to a specific start point in the first executable.

Thank you for your help

Talking To Another Swf
Hi
I have a separate animated swf file that has no interaction but just plays through its long sequence of frames.

But now i want some buttons on top of this swf that will allow me to jump forward or backwards 20 frames at a time.

I guess this is going to involve levels but i really don't know where to start.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

HELP One MC Not Talking To Other MC
Hi

I am using Flash 5. I have previously created a website, with two MC's, which works fine. My new site, which uses the same principle as my old site, doesn't work.

My previous site has an MC called "buttons", with menu buttons in it, and screens, which each button links to, in another MC called "screens". The buttons are static.

On my new site, each button is animated, tweening from left to right across the screen. Each button is within its own MC for alignment purposes. I have placed the following code into each button:

on (rollOver) {
stop ();
}
on (rollOut) {
play ();
}
on (release) {
_root.screens.gotoAndStop(2);
}

The on (rollOver) and on (rollOut) commands work fine on each button.

On my previous website,
on (release) { _root.screens.gotoAndStop(2); }
goes straight to the appropriate screen.

Now, when I test the new site, the button does nothing, even though I have asigned the code to it.

I am baffled. The two sites are literally the same except for the moving buttons in the second site.

Please help!!

Btn Talking To A Swf?
How can I get a button to play a swf that’s targeted in a diff’ mc.

I have 2 swf files- nav.swf(with btn) and bg.swf,

Both swf’s are targeted to separate empty mc’s – nav_mc and bg_mc.
How can I get the button in nav.swf to tell bg.swf to -goto and play frame 2?

Talking Bee
Hi!

I would like to have some help with the little bee on the link beneath...

First of all I would like to have the bee to speak something randomly,
For example: “hello, I hope you are find today” and so on…

I would be aprox 20 of this randomly “words”

And for second: when you push the bee there will be lets say 10 different other
randomly “words”

It’s a little nice thing to communicate with , in the end there will be
an Ice projector.

Can I do it with action script?

Thanks in advance

http://www.dynamisk.nu/bee.htm

Swf Talking To Swf
hi all wondering if anyone could help.

i have a main movie that loads 2 movies into it.

one goes to level 2
the other to level 10

now i whant a button in the level 10 movie to change the alpha of the movie in level 2 to 50%.

any advice - ideas would be great thanx.

Talking
hi, im pretty new to this which is why im here, and i was wondering, how do i place a sound clip in my movies? to better explain, this is what i would like to:

have bob say hi to joe (sound clip one)
joe says hi again (sound clip two)

everything i know about flash up until now was self taught, and the reason im asking for help now is because i've always wondered how people get the timing right when their characters speak, and i dont want end up doing it the hard/long/wrong way. i mean, should i make the movie first, then add sounds, make the sounds first and then make the movie? i was gonna go with the second option, but i cant figure out how to add sounds. i've been looking so many places, but the only tutorials i see anywhere is for everything but what i want to do. and i dont see an "insert sound" option which would be nice, lol. i have the 2004 delux version of Flash MX. hopefully this is an easy question or somewhere can link me to a tutorial. sorry if this has been posted but i did 3 long (really long) searches in the forum and didnt see anything on this.

.SWF Talking To Another .SWF
Can anyone point me towards a good tutorial on having one .swf talk to another?

I am trying to get one .swf file to talk to another one to control some different elements.

Thanks,

--J

.AS Talking To .FLA
Hi, I need a movieclip that lives in my .fla to perform an action when something specifically happens in my .as. So pretty much i need to be able to call a function in the .fla from my .as.

Is the only way to do this using custom events and/or eventDispatcher. And if so how would I implement? Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated, thanks

Mc's Talking To Each Other
How do i get a button in one movie clip to tell the timeline in another to change posisition.

MC Talking To One Another?
Hey all,
Well I lent my book on MC's talking to one another to this great looking girl at school, and wouldn't ya know it, I need it. Ah well she was worth it.
I have two movie clips within my main timeline. Both clips are named and MC1 has the buttons which I want to activate the animations in MC2. I'm just not sure how to ask the permissions so to say.
THanks

One Swf Talking To Another?
Anybody know how I can have one .swf talk to another. The real trick is that I need them to communicate with one another in different frames.

stumped

Meaddas

Talking Between To Sep. SWF's When Using Frames?
Hello,

Can anyone tell me a good place to find a tut. on how to work between to sep. SWF's ??

Thanks

Swf Talking To Another Swf Label
Hello,

Here my problem: Since my movie is a little bit to large (543kb) I have decide to break the movie into 5 movies.

I want to be able to talk to other movies but inside one of my movie there are labels. How can I speak to the label x of my movie x when I am in the movie y.

Hope you will understand my problem.

Talking To Frames
I am starting to make a new version of my site and need help. I have difrent "pages" of the site which would be the diffrent companies we did business for. i want to be able to have an mc for each company,ex. COMPANY1 could be the first mc and there will be text boxes and swfs loaded externaly, so each dif company page can have a difrent layout. i will then place that mc into another mc which will be the SHOW page. each frame in the SHOW mc will be a difrent company, ex. frame one will be the COMPANY1 mc and frame 2 will have COMPANY2 mc. then, on the main the SHOW mc will be placed in the CURRENT mc. this is where you can see the first company. the problem is when you go from one company to another i want there to be a transistion. basicaly i want the CURRENT mc to become and mc called LAST, and that will go up, and a mc called NEW will contain the page about to come up, and that will have an up animation. then the NEW mc must become the CURRENT mc. i was wondering how i will be able to tell flash which frame the SHOW mc was on, that being the mc that contains all the mc of the difrent companies. i was wondering if i could do something like give each frame a variable, then on the main i could tell the button that says company 2 to have NEW mc equal the second frame in SHOW and mc LAST to equal the frame that was just CURRENT. im sorry this is so dragged out, but i think it seems simple. i just dont know how to do it. heres a quick summary of the mcs
main scene:
mcNEW(will be CURRENT), mcCURRENT, and mcLAST(was CURRENT)
|
mcSHOW(each frame is a company)
| |
COMPANY1, COMPANY2, etc.
(i hope that stays aligned)
i have also thrown together a sort of example swf that can be found at http://www.claysushi.com/flash/example.swf
basically im doing it this way because i want it to be very easy to update, i.e. when weve finished a new clinet, we can add them buy jsut adding a frame to the mcSHOW. if none of this made sense because you dont understand my problem, the problem is that lets say you were viewing company 4, and want to go back to company 2, company 2 will animate upwards like it was the next one, or else i could jsut have tell targets and gotoANDplay frame 1, 2, etc. thank you for anytime spent on reading this very long question and thanks so much if you are able to help.

Talking Between .swf Files
I have 2 .swf files sitting in 2 seperate frames of an HTML page. Is there a way to have one of the movies tell the other movie to gotoAndPlay a certain frame?

Talking To Timelines
Thanks to many of you in this discussion forum, I have created a prototype (using Flash MX) for instructional tutorials. If I can solve one more problem, I'll have a fully working prototype!

My movie uses a movie clip for navigation. It has Restart, Previous, Next, and Go to End buttons. All of the buttons work fine with one exception (see below).

Here's what my main movie does (and doesn't do):

(1) Plays an introduction and then prompts the user to "Click to begin."
(2) User clicks Next, Movie1 (external swf) loads into a movie clip on the stage. User can click forward or backward to view different labeled frames in Movie1.
(3) In the last section of Movie1, if user clicks Next, Movie2 (external swf) loads into the same movie clip (replacing Movie1) and plays. User can browse this movie, too.
(4) At the end of Movie2, if user clicks Next, main movie takes over and displays a Menu Page that enables user to revisit any of the tasks demonstrated in any of the movies.

At this point, if I click the Restart button and go back to replay the main movie from the beginning, it plays the introductory material and prompts the user to "Click to begin" again. But this time, if the user clicks Next, the movie won't budge. It won't advance to the next frame and reload Movie1.

In testing, I find that if I skip the loaded movies and click "Go to End," then click "Restart," the movie plays fine. It's only when I have loaded the external movies that restarting the movie causes it not to advance normally. I've tried explicitly unloading them, but that doesn't seem to fix the problem.

I have also used the Debug command to watch variables and to see what's showing on the stage. I do use variables in all timelines, but I'm careful to target them. The only thing I note is that if I play the entire movie and then click Restart, the loaded movie sometimes shows and sometimes doesn't. I can't seem to isolate the problem.

If I can just get this movie to Restart and play without problems, I'll be done with this project.

I humbly seek advice...

Talking To Other Movies
hi | i'm having problems communicating with an external .swf and i can't seem to figure out why. i'm working off a main movie which calls several external .swf files.

in this instance, a button is the trigger from the main movie. i apply the following actions to the button:

_root.swiftholder.gotoAndPlay(120);

swiftholder is the instance name of an empty movie clip in the main movie. on the first frame of the main movie i apply the following action:

swiftholder.loadMovie("flash/3D.swf");

i want the button in the main movie to talk to the 3D.swf file and that's why i applied the first action:

_root.swiftholder.gotoAndPlay(120);

problem is that it isn't working. i believe the syntax is just fine but something else i've messed up. anyone have any ideas?

thanks. - matt.

Talking Scripts...
hi,
What im trying to do is to make my MC say the numbers randomly selected between 1 and 10..if th number is 4 let me hear it say "four" and "two for 2"...(using my *.wav" files already on my comp.)

thenks

Frame Talking
How can I change a variable of a swf from another swf in another frame of a HTML page?

I have one frameset called test.
There are two frames. Frame A and frame B.
In frame A, there is a swf called Af and in frame B a swf called Bf.

In swf Af there is a variable called Ok.

I need to set this variable to true from a button in Bf.

Hou could I do it?

Thanx

Talking With NaN Data
Hi everyone.
I made a calculator, but if the user put any letter in the fields that only must have numbers, display NaN in the results..Normal !!!

But my client want to display "Not right" in the place of NaN..

I think that was very easy to do.. But isn't
I did that:

function calc(){
re = c * all[p][s];
if(re == NaN){
return "Not Right";
}else{
return re
}
}

But, didn't work.... In the If I try re == false, re == "NaN"... But don't work... always display NaN..

Talking Between Timelines
hey guys, i got one for ya! i got a MC producing a random number and i want it to use that number to make another MC play for that ammount of frames, is that possible?

another thing, whenever i try dragging stuff from the library, flash stops responding, anyone know about that?

SWF Talking To SWF Across Frameset?
Hello, we buitl a site that uses seperate SWF's in various frames of a frameset, and I would like one to communicate with the other, mainly to set variables from one to the other, is this possible? If so, could someone please let me know how and/or where I could find more information?

Thank you,

Ben K.
ben@kaubisch.org

Talking Between Movies
I've loaded an external swf. Played it thru and then closed it. Upon closing it I'd like to jump to another frame in the movie beneath it, and I'm having trouble targeting the parent movie.

Talking Heads
I have two videos of a people talking to the camera, both are reading their script.
I want to make a flash file where one video is on one side of the screen, the other is on the opposite side and i want to be able to play a segment of one of the movies,then pause it, and start playing the other, back and forth...
Basically to look like a conversation is going on between the two videos. (eventually the videos may be replaced with animations, if they look better).

Any easy way to do this, or any suggestion of a better way?

Robert

Talking Site Pal
Hello everyone,

I recently visit a site that had a talking person (navigator) on it. You anyone know how I can get into this maybe find some tutorials.

Here is the URL:
http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_minis...ex.php?email=1

I Am Having Trouble Talking To A MC
I am having trouble talking to this MC from the main time line.

The clip has an instance of "block".

Here is the script in the first frame of the clip.
-----------------------------------------------------
stop();

_level0.blockAbs = this;
// Set block dimensions
var blockWi = 350;
var blockHi = 300;
var blockWiHi = blockWi+blockHi;
var pivotY = blockHi/2+blockWi;
var blockColor = 0xF9FBFF;

-----------------------------------------------------

After the MC is loaded I want to change the width and height.

I have tried to reference the MC by:

_root.block.blockWi = 200;
_root.block.blockHi = 200;

That didn't work so I tried:

_root.blockAbs.blockWi = 200;
_root.blockAbs.blockHi = 200;

and that didn't work.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

www.e4net.com
www.tobymack.com

Walking Or Talking
I am new to this site, so forgive me if this is a question that was already asked.

What I am tring to do is create a cartoon in flash.
1. Is it possible to build a character and lock the arms and legs on the body with pivit points? So, if I move the arm up, it says in the sholder on the body and moves up like an arm. Same thing for the legs (but not on the sholder).
2. I am tring to animate my character talking. I have the head, mouth, eyes, and sound as seperate layers. Is it possible to flatten the layers in Flash so I could add it to my library and then put the talking head on my body?

Maybe there is a simple cartooning tutorial out there. Please direct me oh great masters of Flash in the right direction.