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AS3: use buttons in external swf

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March 20, 2013
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Hi,

I am making a website in Adobe Flash that imports it´s navigation buttons from an external swf-file.

The problem is how my Main FLA-file will know which of the navigation buttons the users has pressed, since the buttons and it's eventListeners are in the external swf-file.

With other word: can I make my external swf-file return a Number to my website FLA-file, to determine which button that have been pressed? If so, how?

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Correct answer kglad

here are the various was your two swfs can communicate:

http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/918/cpsid_91887.html

andjelkovich2012

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I had a similar problem thanks to Ned Murphy, I learned you can dispatch events which can communicate between .swf

(Generally speaking)

Main Movie:

yourObject.addEventListener("myEvent",theEvent);

function theEvent(e:Event):void{

//code here;

}

External .swf:

//attach to whatever needs to fire the event.

dispatchEvent(new Event("myEvent"));

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here are the various was your two swfs can communicate:

http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/918/cpsid_91887.html

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Thanks for the link.

I still dont quite understand, could you show be an example?

If I from my FLA-file called Main want to get the variable pageNr from the swf-file Buttons, what should I write?

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are you loading the navigation swf? if yes, show the loader code.

are the navigation button listener functions on the navigation swf's main timeline? if no, what timeline are they on relative to the main timeline.