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From: YHKWan on 23 Jun 2008 09:32
Can anyone show me how to program director MX 2004 to run a few Actionscript 2 programmed .swf (not frame-by-frame programmed) in a row?
From: Rob Dillon on 23 Jun 2008 19:49
What do you want to accomplish? There is a lingo property, playing, that you
can test to find if any given Flash sprite is running. If the .swf files that
you want to play have more than one frame then you can test for the
_currentframe and the _totalframes of any given .swf. Alternately, you can set
a variable in each of the .swf files and test for that variable's value in
Director. You can also call a Director function from inside the .swf. You can
use that to control playback.

From: YHKWan on 25 Jun 2008 15:42
Rob,
Thanks for your replay. Here is what I want to do:
I have a Flash animation all done in Actionscript to playback a few slides
with title and description. The pictures are loaded in the .swf runtime and the
location of the pictures, duration, transition, and text attributes are
controlled by external XML. Since this is all done with Actionscript, the
Timeline is not really an indication of real time (like in frame-by-frame
animation). How can I program Director to play the whole Flash animation and
stop when done?

How can I upload a test file to you to illustrate what I'm talking about?

From: Rob Dillon on 26 Jun 2008 09:54
With that scenario, you can write a function in the Flash movie to call a
function in the Director movie to have it move to a new frame or play a
different sprite or whatever you like. In Flash, just use a getURL() function
to call the Director function. If you are calling a function that is in a
behavior attached to the Flash sprite then use this syntax:

getURL("event:functionName");

if you want to put the Director function in a movie script then use this
syntax:

getURL("lingo:functionName");

Then, just write a lingo function to do what you want.

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