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mgason
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October 9, 2006
Question

external api, flash ocx, visual basic

  • October 9, 2006
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so I tracked down some references to using fscommand to send info from flash ocx to visual basic inside a vb application.

Then I found this in the flash 8 help
"NOTE
The External API is a replacement for fscommand() in Flash 8 for interoperating with a HTML page or a container application. The External API offers more robust functionality than fscommand() in this situation
"

well I am a designer who has a fair grasp of actionscript, but not really any other code language.
I am working with engineers who have a pretty good VB skills and no clue about flash.

I can not make much of the examples given in flash, and they seem to always deal with java scrit and the container being a html page, as is probably the usual case.

Can anyone build me a simple Visual Basic project example, where a frame in a flash movie running in the ocx on a vb form sets a value in Vb for a variable.
Using the External Api referred to in the flash help

Basically we just want to be able to say in VB somehing like if myVar = 1 do something.
AND have flash set myVar in our VB app to 1 when it passes a certain frame.

Please Help, I have been posting on various forums for a few days, no luck
mark
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mgasonAuthor
Known Participant
October 10, 2006
Hi,
I am admitting to be way out of my depth.
most of what I find keeps referring to being in ahtml page and using javascript.
My movie is inside a VB6 written windows application.
Thanks for the reply. I will show it to our VB folk who are out of town for a couple of days.
They may see the light ;-)
V
VisionaryStudios
Known Participant
October 9, 2006
Hey Mark its actually pretty easy. You don't even have to use the external API functions. I have a pretty simple example but you should be able to make changes to suit your needs.


With this VBScript in my HTML page:

<script type="text/vbscript" language="VBScript">
<!--
Sub foobar (text)
MsgBox text
End Sub
-->
</script>


I can call that script on a button in my swf with this code:

on(release)
{
myVar = "Hello, world";
getURL("javascript:foobar(\"" + myVar + "\")")
}


whatever myVar is will show up in a dialog box sent from the vbscript above, in this case it shows "Hello, World".

However, that only works in IE, not in Firefox yet. I don't know what to do to get firefox to work with it yet.
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