Re-directing FLA submit button

Hi everyone,

Here's a good one. A little out of my league!!!

What i am trying to do is this: If i have various different HTML pages, each with a button calling the same FLA, I need the FLA submit button to call a different screen/page depending upon how or which page the user entered the FLA from.

Home---------- ----- entry page 1

Services------ FLA ------- entry page 2
button
contact------- ------ entry page 3

Does that make sense? If so does anyone know how this can be done?

Help is appreciated

Many Thanks

Richie

swf files are used online. fla files can only be edited not played.

Seems like you need to send a variable that tells the new swf where its being called from. Then you have to use some javascript in the html embed code so the swf can recieve the variable ( sent by the url string ). On the submit button you can have

getURL("myFlash.swf?sentFrom=services");

In the recieving swf in the first frame....

gotoAndStop(sentFrom);

...leading to a framelable in the movie called services.

If you want I can post the javascript that makes it possible to recieve variables from the urlstring. I have it somwhere on my computer.

Thankyou very much Pellepiano

Thats great, I think I understand. I did mean the SWF (opps!!!).

It would be great if you could send me the javascript to achieve this as I have virtually no experience using javascript.

Thanks so much again

Richie

You embed the swf with this special embed code. It will make the swf on the page receive variables from the url string that calls the page.

<script language="JavaScript">
document.write ('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" '
+'codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" '
+'WIDTH=750 HEIGHT=500> <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="knock.swf'+document.location.search+'">'
+'<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>'
+'<EMBED src="knock.swf' +document.location.search+'" '
+'quality=high WIDTH=750 HEIGHT=500 '
+'TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"></EMBED></OBJECT>')
</script>