play external swf on specific frame on another html page

[letschillout]

Hi ppl, I have question here

i will send newsletter to client via email
client clicks on image or link and it will open a specific frame in swf

i know we can jump specific frame in html if swf is embed in same html
but i am looking for external swf in html to be played on specific frame.

anyone have idea?

[Gazaah]

So initially I thought to do what I wrote below, then I saw this article for using query strings from another forum post-- http://noscope.com/journal/2003/12/query_string
which is much nicer than what I thought of. Aren't forums great for learning??


Old idea:
Serious: You could get fancy, where only one flash file exists, but the e-mail link the person click contains information about what button was pressed, i.e., query string. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string ) You could write a little server side program to create a cookie based on their query string (the query might look like "http://yourwebcontent.emailstuff.com/mailindex.html?framestart=1") Then the flash movie would read the cookie contents and start on the number or name that the framestart variable in the cookie is set to based on which query string was sent to the server.

So look up how to set a query string based cookie value, then look up how to load a cookie variable into flash. If the terms you read for scripting this process sound foreign to you, just link people to a bunch of different Flash files.