Hi Rainer
One question I have is, why do you have the "icon" / dropzone piece being in
HTML outside of the game itself? Would it not be simpler to create that
piece inside the shockwave game, thereby reducing the need to communicate
between the html and the shockwave piece?
In my previous post I assumed a couple of things without really reading your
question properly, and that was that you were trying to get a local file
into the shockwave piece but in re reading your original post I realize that
you are basically working with files already on the server. There are a
couple of real headaches from my understanding of evalScript and
communicating between the html page and the shockwave piece is that a) you
block out Mac IE users as IE on Mac has no scripting language between the
browser and the shockwave piece. b) you will need to write two versions a
Javascript version and a VBScript version of the communication code and
apply the Javascript version to Netscape and the VBScript version to MSIE on
Win.
I've never tried this before so be careful here, you might be able to pull a
nasty stunt by using layers on the HTML page. Say you had a 1 pixel
shockwave movie that could be written in to a layer dynamically, if that 1
pixel shockwave movie could be small enough to load as close to
instantaneous as possible and if it could accept the url via a sw parameter
then it might be possible to redraw that layer on demand passing it the
parameter and having javascript right in the parameter as it recreates the
layer. Then set up a communication between movie 1 and movie 2 using the MUI
Xtra using peer to peer, and pass through the parameter in that fashion.
Pretty convoluted in my opinion but it might be workable if you really can't
use the evalScript method.
But I guess the real question would be as to why you can't do both parts
within the 1 shockwave piece to reduce the headaches.
Sincerely
Mark
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