Michael, Valentin, Tab,
Thanks for your responses. Valentin was right -- projector with embedded
browser, no Shockwave involved. The onsubmit=document.title='_submit' is
just what I was looking for.
Also, thanks Michael Tab for reminding me about EvalScript. I'll probably
need it later in this
Hi Rob,
you can use either the status or the title of the page to communicate
with lingo.. I've used the same trick before with the webbrowser
control. But as the status text dispays all kind of status information
and therefor changes all the time, I would suggest you use the title.
Here is some
Hi Rob,
On Internet Explorer, you don't need an Xtra - you can call a function
myMovieName.evalScript and pass it a string (which you can parse out
later). It takes a return value. In Lingo, put 'on evalScript' in a movie
handler. To send in the other direction (to IE) you call
Tab,
if I understood it right, Rob is not asking for communication between an
embedded shockwave movie and the browser, but between a WebXtra sprite
inside a director projector and director.
valentin
Tab Julius wrote:
Hi Rob,
On Internet Explorer, you don't need an Xtra - you can call a
Valentin,
You're right - I didn't quite catch that. He's dynamically generating web
pages, showing them WITHIN the projector on stage via a web sprite, then
wants to talk from that sprite back to the originating Lingo. Okay, that's
different, and the web page doesn't even necessarily have
I think I'm looking for a strategy on how to notify Lingo from a
form tag's 'onSubmit()' event. IOW, how can the Javascript function I
assign to onSubmit notify Lingo?
Well Rob, here's my guess:
Set up a js function in the header of the page.
In the header of the html page, this javascript
