Controlling F5 from Director 8?

[deadbeat]

Hi...

I'm building a complex nav system as part of a larger project, which will then be imported into a host Director movie. What I need to know is, how do I send playback commands from Director to the Flash SWF?

Essentially, I need to control a movie clip nested about 6 layers deep in the SWF sprite, based on events received in the Director host...

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

K.

[John Dowdell]

It's easier to use flatter hierarchies of simpler sprites.

In a browser, a SWF has to load in levels upon itself. In Director, you can just layer multiple SWF sprites together, without the need to nest things.

For the Lingo interface to SWF sprites, the Director documentation is the prime resource.

jd

[deadbeat]

John...

Thanks for your response..though it doesn't specifically answer my question, it does relate to another I'd like to ask..

To explain further: we have "inherited" a project which was initially developed in Flash, though the requirements are far more within Director's range of abilities. I am aware that it would be simpler to separate the nav into individual elements, controlled through Lingo, but that's just not an option on this project-our Lingo programmers are already overworked dealing with other elements of the project...So, to reduce time needed for reworking the interface, the entire nav system is being rebuilt in Flash, with various Lingo commands being sent to and from the SWF...it needs to be "smart" enough to provide different actions based on prior user response...which is easily enough accomplished by setting and evaluating varibles within the Flash SWF...

So, to rephrase my original question, I need to know the specific syntax used to send nested movie clips inside a Flash 5 sprite to a specific frame from a Lingo command...I'm guessing it should be something like:

sprite(flashNav._root.navigationMC.subnavMC.rollov erMC).goToFrame(2)

but I don't really know the details here (I'm a Flash guy, not Director)...

Alternately, can Director send a Flash sprite to a frame label? And if so, how? Is this just specified within the goToFrame command?

As to my second question: Are Flash 5 Actionscript scripts incompatible with a Director 8 host movie? Early tests would seem to indicate that this is so...Do we need an update for the Flash Asset Xtra in order to run F5 scripts within a sprite?

Thanks for your response,

K.
[Edited by deadbeat on 09-08-2000 at 05:10 AM]

[shezzy3k]

Originally posted by deadbeat

]but I don't really know the details here (I'm a Flash guy, not Director)...

]I advise you to got to we're here Director discussion board, probably you'll find the answer there.