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robothouse

12-29-2006, 08:54 AM

Hi everyone, I have a webpage that has standard windows buttons in it that allows a user to cycle through a sequence of images...pretty basic stuff. The buttons trigger one of two functions "backward()" and "forward()". This all works great but the problem is I want to replace these buttons with flash movies so as to keep them stylistically in line with the rest of my site. After a few random stabs at trying to get the correct code to work I'm a bit at a loss.

Could anyone tell me what openUrl command do I need to have attached to my buttons (in my flash movie) in order to call these functions in the page the flash movie is in?

thankyou!

ps its flash 8

1stbite

12-30-2006, 05:24 PM

java or javascript?

if javascript take a look here:
http://www.spoono.com/flash/tutorials/tutorial.php?id=20

theTick

01-04-2007, 05:14 AM

use ExternalInterface. that way it is possible to call from inside Flash a function of the host application. so it doesn't matter whether your swf is hosted in HTML, a Java app or a C# app or whatever.

Flash:
import flash.external.*;
function callHost():Void
{
ExternalInterface.call("anyFunction");
}
myButton.onPress=callHost;
you can even send parameters that way, just look in Flash help.

make sure that your host app provides a function called "anyFunction". e.g. JavaScript in HTML:
<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function anyFunction() {
/* do something */

}
</script>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

MyFriendIsATaco

01-04-2007, 05:19 AM

just use:

getURL("javascript:backward();");

or

getURL("javascript:forward();");

robothouse

01-04-2007, 07:32 AM

thanks guys, much appreciated, have it all working now...will be up and going soon!