Controlling another swf

[Laslett]

I've done the search on tuts.

Is there a tut kirupa or other on controlling one swf from another.

so clsic example having a loaded playback bar then loading vid or mucis and the universal playback bar can control it.


Could this be done either way of loading swfs

(Into a movie on the main swf or loaded by levels?)

[kill.robot.kill]

well you can load a swf into another swf and control it using the proper targeting. Or you can control a second completely seperate swf on an html page via localConnection. Depends on what you need, but it sounds like the first way what you will need.

[Laslett]

proper targeting?

[kill.robot.kill]

look for information on loadMovie, what you'll want to do is in your base swf, just make an empty movieclip, use the loadMovie command to load a new swf into that movieclip, then you can control the loaded swf using buttons in your base swf.
so if you were to load the swf into a movieclip called "holder" and you wanted to stop that movie you could attach this code to a button.
on (release) {
holder.stop();
}

if this doesn't make any sense look for a tutorial on loadmovie and one one paths or scope.