urgent: two menus talk

[certified]

hello,
i want to have a horizontal menu which is made of flash, and it opens another vertical sub menu when a menu item is selected, each of the vertical and horizontal menus are in two different frames in a html file here is the code i use on the horizontal menu buttons

 _root.soffers.gotoAndPlay(2);
	_root.slogin.gotoAndStop(1);
	_root.sjobs.gotoAndStop(1);

where soffers and slogin and sjobs are movieclips found in the vertical menu which is in a different html frame in the page


HOW can i do so as it is not working now
thanks in advance

[RanTen]

Hi.

Check this if its of any help:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl..._comm.htm#ftfc

Tootles

[deamothul]

hi there, u can use a the localConnection Object 4 communicating between 2 swf's

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...connection.htm

i just ised it myself yesterday and it work perfectly

laterz

[certified]

thanks,
i can now send messages between two swfs,but i can't control a movie clip in the second file from the first one
i have used this code in the sending flash

  
bcourses.onRelease = function() {
	userMessage.text="courses";
	outgoing_lc = new LocalConnection();
	outgoing_lc.send("lc_name", "methodToExecute",userMessage.text);
	delete outgoing_lc;
};

and that on the receiving one

  
incoming_lc = new LocalConnection();
incoming_lc.methodToExecute = function(param) {
	sentMessage.text = param;
	_root.scourses.gotoAndPlay(2);
	_root.soffers.gotoAndStop(1);
};
incoming_lc.connect("lc_name");

the message is sent and does appear in the sentMessage but the movie clip is not responding,
also i have tried this code on a movie clip

  onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	if (sentMessage.text == courses) {
		_root.scourses.gotoAndPlay(2);
		_root.soffers.gotoAndStop(1);
		
	}
}

but it is also not working, i think the problem is in calling the movieclip can you help please
thanks in advance

[deamothul]

hi there , i did it sorta like this with my file:
in the sender swf

sendr = new LocalConnection();
butonA.onPress=function(){
sendr.send("Sender2Receiver","receiverFunction","unloader","loader");
}

In the receiver i had this:

receiver = new LocalConnection();
receiver.receiverFunction = function(msg,msg2) {
if(msg=="unloader"){
    home_container.unloadMovie()
   }
if(msg2=="loader"){
   home_container.unloadMovie()
   home_container.loadMovie("newPage.swf");
   }
}
receiver.connect("Sender2Receiver");

hope i had the code right
laterz

[certified]

thanks loading movies is working with me
but i don't want to load and unload movies
i want to target (control) already existing movieclips, can u imagine how can i??
thanks

[deamothul]

loading movies was just to show how it could be done.
when i removed the piece of code that loads the movie , with something like: _root.gotoAndPlay("main")
it went perfectly to the frame labeled "main" in the receiving swf

I think you'll just have to play with it a bit , but i got it working with only replacing thst piece of code

[certified]

yesssssssssssss
i got it i have to use frame labels not frame numbers this was the problem, it is now working
thanks a lottttttttttttttttttttttttttt

[deamothul]

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