communicating between 2 swfs

if i have been trying to get my lastest project to work all weekend with no luck. what im trying to do is when u click a button on one swf it goes to another swf and plays a desired label such as "about". I was wondering if you guys can help me narrow the problem down to see if its in the recieving html and swf or the sending html or swf

my first question is; is this the right output (what appears in the brower's address bar) the button should b giving if its suppose to go to a new swf and play "about"

Quote:

http://www.callkarl.ca/main.html?frameName=about

this is what im recieving html looks like

Quote:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<script language="javascript">

var i = document.location.search;
cnt = 1;
var exp = "";
if(i==""){}else{
while(exp.length<i.length-1){
exp=exp + i.charAt(cnt);
cnt = cnt + 1;
}
}
</script>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>main</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">




<a href="http://216.147.53.243/main.html?frameName=mark"></a>
<a href="http://216.147.53.243/main.html?frameName=info"></a>
<a href="http://216.147.53.243/main.html?frameName=contact"></a>
<a href="http://216.147.53.243/main.html?frameName=links"></a>
<a href="http://216.147.53.243/main.html?frameName=about"></a>
<script language="JavaScript">document.write('<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"'+'codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"'+'width=100% height=100% id=main align=middle><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name=movie value="main.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="flashvars" value="' + exp + '" /><param name="scale" value="default" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="main.swf" quality=high scale=default bgcolor=#ffffff width=100% height=100% name=main align=middle allowScriptAccess=sameDomain '+'type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />')
</script>
</body>
</html>

hi,

Passing variables trough the url is a valid solution.
The easiest way to pass the variable from the url into Flash is using SWFObject.
Here's more info.

Something like:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript"> var so = new SWFObject("main.swf", "mymovie", "100%", "100%", "7", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable("frameName", getQueryParamValue("frameName")); so.write("flashcontent"); </script>

Now, in Flash, you have a varible frameName in the main timeline, which you can use like this:
code:
gotoAndStop(frameName);
Your logic is correct, it's the same as this. But I don't know if your code is, and is far too complicate.

Hi,

if I not misreading this (' and " next to each other are hard to read) you are omitting a few whitespace from the object tag. Try to avoid that '+' thing altogether

Musicman