mthielman11 wrote: > So my question is, is this even possible?? Can I open a certain state > in another flex application from a different flex application? ?
Yes, you have a few of options for client-side cross-SWF communication. The first option is to use the LocalConnection class. This has the advantage of not requiring any recourse to browser-based JavaScript and runs on pretty much any platform that supports Flash. Additionally, it can handle serialization of core ECMAScript objects quite nicely without you having to do additional work on your end. It does have several drawbacks though, namely a 40 kilobyte limit on the maximum amount of data passed on each request and a maximum number of calls that can be made per frame (this is about 10 times the framerate, if I recall correctly). Alternatively, you can pass data through JavaScript. In Flex 2, you can do this via the ExternalInterface API, or in Flex 1.5 or earlier, via the fscommand() call. This doesn't have the limitations that come with using LocalConnection and will allow you to interface with JavaScript quite nicely if you're doing additional scripting there. However, you may need to do your own serialization, and this technique is known not to work on all browsers, particularly on Internet Explorer and older versions of Safari on the Macintosh. Lastly, you can always pass data between the two via a back-end server, though this wouldn't be particularly efficient and would probably result in more latency than you'd like. Jim ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
