Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

On Jul 25, 7:40 am, "Funks Da Burn" <webforumsu...@macromedia.com>
wrote:

What version of Flash are you using? you can directly speak to
different movies from any other movie.  lets say you have these movies
added:

Clip1          Clip2
 |                  |
Master--------Movie

MasterMovie can talk to clip 1 and clip2 using the "dot"
MasterMovie.Clip1.alpha=.5
MasterMovie.Clip2.alpha=.5

Clip 1 and 2 can talk to their parent
Clip 1.parent.alpha=.5;

Clip1 can talk to clip 2 through the parent
clip1.parent.clip2.alpha=.5;

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in AS2 you can point directly from one to the other with the correct pathing.

IE:

_level0.TopSwfLoader.content.FunctionToCall();
or
_level0.TopSwfLoader.content.Property = NewPropertyValue;

_level0 takes you to the main swf (_root, but this works around if lockroot is
set)

TopSwfLoader.content is the content of the Loader component that has your
Top.swf loaded into it.  If you are not using a Loader component, then you can
change this to the instance name of the Movie Clip that has the swf loaded into
it.

FunctionToCall()/Property is what you want to control.  Either a function call
or a property.

In AS3 this works a bit differently.  I would dispatch a custom event from the
Bottom swf.  Then the main swf would catch that event, and call the appropriate
function/property in the top swf.  I can elaborate more on this if you need.