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From: dbento on 26 Jun 2008 18:44
I have build a flash menu to use in my director movie.
What i want is simple tasks, as quit the app from a flash button.

If i could send vars from flash to director is enough, but i couldn't do that.
I couldn't find any examples to do something like that.

Can anyone help me?

From: Mike Blaustein on 26 Jun 2008 19:24
You can send commands from flash to director with getURL

for example, to quit the Director movie by clicking on a button in a
flash swf:

on(release){
getURL("lingo: halt");
}

to send Director to a frame labeled "menu", you could use this:

on(release){
getURL("lingo: go \"menu\"");
}

note how I escaped the quotes with slashes...
From: Mike Blaustein on 26 Jun 2008 19:26
Also, you can get and set variables in Flash from Director with

getVariable()
setVariable()

check out the docs for syntax and examples

You must save the swf as Flash 8 or earlier if you are using Director MX
2004. You can use the Flash 9 format if you are usind Director 11.
Either way, you can not use AS3. You must use AS2.
From: duckets on 27 Jun 2008 06:13
As well as directly using the "lingo:" event, in the flash GetURL command, you
can also call event handlers directly. I find this method preferable, as it
means you don't end up with lingo code distributed throughout your your flash
file!

My favoured method: In Director, place a behaviour on the flash sprite.
Then create handlers in that behaviour for each type of event that you want to
trigger from flash. Eg,

on quit me
-- your quit code here
end

Then, in flash, you can call this handler by using:

GetURL("event:quit");

You can also pass a parameter along to the handler, eg:

GetURL("event:myHandlerName 5");

Or if you want to pass a string, you need to escape the quotes for that string:

GetURL("event:myHandlerName \"a string parameter\"");

hope this helps,

- Ben

From: Sharkmenace on 28 Jun 2008 15:38
you can also directly access the swf sprite with dot syntax from director. eg:

sprite("debugPanel").debut_text_field1.text = "hello"
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