controling other flashmovies

[meester]

Would it be possible with swfkit to control another flashmovie that is running at the same time as the swfprojector. Let the second program move to another frame, set variables, ... .

I think it can be done with socket connection, but the problem is here that i don't have the source-code of the second program, so i can't implement swf-commands to listen in it.

[SWFKit]

Hi,

It's very hard to do this. Please tell us more details about the programs, maybe there is a special way to make it work.

BTW, we're making the new SWFKit support RichEdit, we hope it can embed docs. But you still have to wait for several days.

[meester]

Thanks for all the efforts you put in my projects.

I'll trie to explain what I want to achieve.

As you know I'm a school teacher (my pupils are 6 years old).
I've made a program with flash a year ago, wich could automaticly make worksheets about every math-difficulty the kids needed to know in my class.
Many colleges were interested, so I distributed it for free.

Now i've made a program with swfkit that could keep track off the problems that occure with some pupils(in a acces database): what kind of difficultys that need more exercises.
It's a great help for remediation. (I don't know if its an english word).

Now I want to combine the 2 programs.
When the second program notices that there is a pupil that needs more exercises on a certain topic, It should be able to start te first program en print a worksheet with the desired exercises.

I would like to have it done without socket connection, because my first program is allready distributed. Teachers could add their own worksheets,..
With a new installation of the first program , their setting would be gone.

I hope you understand what I want to achieve.

Could it be done the same way as in this example from help?

word = new ActiveXObject("word.application");
         word.Visible = true;
         trace(word.Visible);
         word.Documents.Add();
         word.Selection.TypeText("This is a test...");
         word.Documents[1].SaveAs("c:\\test.doc");
         word.Quit();

[SWFKit]

Please tell me where can I get the first program.

Microsoft Word is an automatic server and it exposes many methods SWFKit can invoke. I think you cannot do the same thing with your first program.

We will look for another way.

[meester]

Just mailed it to you

By the way, when should we expect the new version?

[SWFKit]

I got your nice program, it's really very cool

I found your pagram is just a Macromedia projector, you can upgrade it to a SWFKit projector without droping data of your users. Handle outside commands in "Initialize script" if you have no souce codes of the SWF file. The commands receiving and handling can be done by socket connection as you mentioned.

Our new version will come out soon. We will let you know when it's out.