Re: FLASH: & Framesets - MM where is this tech note?

[John Dowdell]

At 6:02 PM 7/26/0, Blair D Wilde wrote:

> I'm looking for reference to flash talking across frames in a frameset.


There could be a couple of things you're looking for... how to send

messages, how to catch messages, how to troubleshoot sending and catching

messages, background on which browsers let players send messages... might

be talking about the cross-frame or cross-window restrictions some browsers

have, too. The general keyword for all these topics would likely be

"javascript" in the Flash technotes.


The URL you referenced wasn't a technote, but was instead a post-release

article by the documentation group. Some of these changed during the

site-redesign. I don't know of a

wish-docsmacromedia [dot] com

 address (although

I've been buttonholing people about such a thing for some time).


Have you gotten the basics of scripts and plugins talking together in

various browsers yet? That would be the first step, before adding frame

complications. (Remember that not all browsers offer this ability, so if

you're just *contemplating* such a project, you may wish to use a simpler

navigation structure that would be supported by more browsers.)


Sidenote: Terry Schussler recently came up with a new hack in this player

intercommunication area... instead of asking the browser to catch messages,

he uses the Shockwave Player's built-in MultiUser Xtra in peer-to-peer

mode... he has multiple player instances talking directly to each other,

without needing the server or the browser to pass messages. Kinkiest thing

I've seen all month.... ;-)


jd






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