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  1. 06-22-2002, 06:21 PM #1
    drkknght
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    ok -- detailed scenario here:

    i have a page set up into 3 rows, each a different frame. each one has its own flash movie playing in it.

    is it possible to click on a flash button in, say, the middle frame, which causes something to happen in each of the two other framed flash movies? (ie; change background color, or animate some text, etc).

    not have the top and bottom frames load up a new flash movie, but have them jump to a different point or scene within the same flash movie.

    i guess, essentially, the question is: can you control one flash movie from another flash movie?

    i know frames are horrible, but im trying to set up frames around a message board (and until i hear about a better way to intergrate MBs onto a flash site **NOT POPUPS** i gotta stick with frames)

    thanks for any help you can provide!
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  2. 06-23-2002, 08:11 AM #2
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    frames

    hey i havn't got the answer for you, i'm replyin cause i have the same problem myself, i'll be interested to hear if theres a solution, my site has a top frame left frame for nav and a main frame for content, i tried but couldn't get the buttons on the nav frame to direct the swf in the main frame, so if anybody does have an answer to this prob i also will be interested.
    drknght, soz for piggybackin your post!!!
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  3. 07-01-2002, 11:47 AM #3
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    le bump!
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  4. 07-02-2002, 11:21 AM #4
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    um...

    please!
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  6. 07-03-2002, 04:00 PM #5
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    hmm... mebbe this is a dumb question?

    i've seen similar issues discussed elsewhere, but couldnt find a flat out answer to the possiblitiy of it.

    oh well, thanks anyway
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  7. 07-03-2002, 08:58 PM #6
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    Im just going to point you in the right direction. You need to use a scripting language (php, asp) to send and fetch variables and then you need to be checking for those variables constantly with a looping movie clip in each of the flash movies which in turn will react according to the variables it recieves.

    I suggest you take a tutorial on this as its a bit much to go into here.

    good luck
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  8. 07-09-2002, 03:06 PM #7
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    ...i could have sworn i responded to this...

    anyway...

    thanks for the direction-pointing WR!

    but, honestly, that makes it sound like discovering the secrets of the universe to me -- just a *tad* over my head

    and, if thats the only way to get it to work; thats what it requires, then odds are, ill just have to find a way around it, unfortunately

    thanks anyway, tho!
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