Communicating between 2 Flash movies on 1 html page

[gameleon]

Does anyone have an example somewhere where I could see how to communicate between separate .swf files


I have a webpage where 1 flashmovie contains a button and
when you press that button, another flashmovie should receive some kind of command and do something.

That is, the first flash movie on the webpage should send something to the second one.

This should run on Internet Explorer, so both Javascript and VBscript are available...



Anyone have an idea ?


Thanks,

Bart

[Marx]

Hi..

For a detailed explanation look at the first link. The second link has a downloadable library which has a function your after:

http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash...ml#2directions

http://www.ashzfall.com/examples/flash/fscom/

Good luck.

[flashfad]

Check out this site:


SEMIOTICA


Once you have clicked on a link to enter the site, you will have 2 Flash movies on the same document, at the same time.
One will be the navigation tool on the left, this uses fsCommand to cause a javascript function within the HTML document to change the other movies URL.
It looks something like...

function MOVIEID_DoFSCommand(command, args) {
document.all.MOVIEID.movie = "newmovie.swf";
}

Of course it is more flexible to get the string of the new movie as one from the args passed.

any problems email:
antonyp@rsonsmail.co.uk