I played with this approach quite a lot a few months back, before giving up on it. This technique is very limited and there is a lot of data that will not make it through the AS2/AS3 boundary (there are two separate AVMs running side by side in the 8.5 player, with totally different internal data structures). In other words, you can't "set" an arbitrary object on your property. Strings appear to work OK.
What's much more sobering is that in both public postings and private conversations, Adobe has made it clear that this limited communication is not supported and will probably never be supported. It could stop working in the next beta and they wouldn't bat an eye. I recommend using LocalConnection to communicate between the movies, if you want something that you know you won't have to rip out tomorrow. Maybe you don't care about that ;) You don't have to put an LC in each Flash 8 SWF. You can have a "dispatcher" SWF that manages the LC communication and talks with the other Flash SWFs via something in _global. It's pretty awful, but there are no good choices here. ... . . . . j JesterXL wrote: > ...whoa... so, if I have an MC inside of the Flash 8 SWF, I can in fact > run code through a Flash Player 8.5 SWF? Can you post your example > somewhere, this would be really valuable! > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Jason Y. Kwong <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 08, 2006 4:42 PM > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] embed a movieclip > > Yes, I was able to successfully call a setter property. I put arbitrary > code in the function and it worked out fine. The only gotcha is that > the getter/setter must be attached to a MovieClip instance inside the > SWF. So you have to associate a class with a library MC, place it on > the stage and give it an instance name. Then in the Flex code: > > var swf: MovieClip = MovieClip(myloader.content); > var mc: MovieClip = MovieClip(swf.getChildByName("myMC")); > mc.myText = "xxx"; //setter > > I'm really hoping there's an easier way...or this gets fixed in the next > release. > > > On 2/8/06, *JesterXL* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Have you successfully set a getter/setter property? > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Jason Y. Kwong <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 08, 2006 3:08 PM > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] embed a movieclip > > Ok, I found something interesting about this. You can actually > access properties in the loaded swf but trying to call a function > messes up. The function is actually there, but it isn't recognized > as a function. For example, my Flash8 swf has a function named > "callMe". I load this into my Flex2 app and then trace " > swf.callMe" and I actually get "[object Object]". But if try to > call it via swf.callMe(), I get a runtime error: Call attempted on > an object that is not a function. > > Ironically, you can actually access getter/setter functions. Since > they're considered properties, I guess they're good to go. It's a > useable workaround at this point. > > > On 2/8/06, *Jason Y. Kwong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I'm actually trying to do something similar. What I've found so > far should be able to help you. You need to load the SWF via > the Loader component and then use its content property: > > <mx:Loader id="myloader" source=" SimpleSWF.swf" > complete="onComplete()"/> > > private function onComplete(): void > { > var swf: MovieClip = MovieClip(myloader.content); > swf.gotoAndPlay(...); > } > > My problem is that I can't access additional methods/properties > that are declared in the loaded swf. I've seen a Flex 1.5 > example where you can just go ahead and call those methods on > the MovieClip instance, but that doesn't seem to work in Flex > 2. 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