How do I communicate between AS3 and embedded AS2?

I'm working on a game where the the engine is made in AS3, yet the interface is made in AS2.

Basically I am embedding the GUI as a AS2 .swf into my main AS3 .swf. I want the AS2 GUI to be able to communicate with it's parent. Small Interface calls like Pause, Unpause, Upgrade...

I tried to use External Interface, but I can't seem to get it to work. I know it's made for Javascript, but I thought that it would work just as well with AS2 to AS3.

I'm able to edit the Interface file and have the FLA for it. It'd just be a real pain converting it... It'd take way to long to convert the FLA to AS3, talking weeks here, it's rather large.

Thanks,

TariqM

I made an example for you to send data from AS2 movie to AS3 movie. View source of the html.
http://flashscript.biz/flashas3/cros...crosstalk.html

Thanks for the example cancerinform!

But would this work if I download the movie and play it using the Flash Player virtual machine program?

I noticed that it uses Javascript somewhat.

Because I want the game to be playable if someone downloads it, copies it to their website, playable using the Flash Player and practically playable anywhere.

Edit:
I just tested it and it dosn't seem to work separately. I suspected that since it needed the JS function to intermediate between the two movies. Just seems like there should be an easier way...

You can only communicate from an AS2 to a AS3 movie using server side scripts or javascript. Also this works only online and not on the computer.