Control Flash-Movie by Link in another HTML-Frame?

[GastonLeroux]

Hi.
I have the following problem:
I have a system with several frames. On the left frame is the navigation, in the right frame the content. Now I would like to put one big Flash-Movie in the right frame but to navigate in this movie by links in the left navigation-frame. Is this understandable? Is this possible by HTML or JavaScript?
I hope there is a way.

Gaston

[catbert303]

You can do something like this using a bit of javascript, this thread should hopefully help get you started

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=369216

[GastonLeroux]

Thanks for that hint. I'm a real beginner in Flash so I don't have a clue about it. But the script sounds like I have to reload my Flash-movie each time I press a link. Am I right? If yes, it is not what I need.
I want to load the movie only one time in the right frame. And after that I want to, how to say...select scenes by links in the left frame. Without reloading the whole movie. Or if this is not possible with Flash, is it possible with an Java-Applet?
Martin

Originally posted by catbert303
You can do something like this using a bit of javascript, this thread should hopefully help get you started

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=369216

[rooky]

if I am right:

once the file is laoded it is stored in a TEMP folder in your computer and you don't need to load it every time again

[catbert303]

It works by reloading the movie each time to send a new variable to the movie. (Although once, the movie has been loaded once it should be cached so won't take too long after the first time) If you have mx you can probably use local connection objects (i don't have mx so I can test these)

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl..._object05.html
http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl..._object07.html