Communication between AS 1.0 and AS 3.0

[rajesh_flash]

Hello Friends,

I am having a small doubt in flash. It was a communication problem between flash cs3 and flash mx 2004.

I am using flash cs3, I am loading an external swf file into my application(the loaded file is in mx2004 format, in which I have a button). Now on clicking on that button i want to call a method which is there inside flash cs3.

How to do this ? can anyone answer my ques asap. Its very urgent


Regards,
Rajesh

[Swooter]

use the LocalConnection class... although, I don't know whether it's available in AS1

Example AS3:

var $lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
var $lcClient:Object = {};
$lc.allowDomain("*");
$lc.connect("_example"); // mind the underscore
$lc.client = $lcClient;

// Receive from AS1 to AS3
$lcClient.someAS3Function = function($message:String):void {
  trace("AS1 to AS3: " + $message);
}
 
// Send from AS3 to AS1
myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(e):void {
  $lc.send("_example", "someAS1Function", "hello world! I am AS3");
}

Example AS1:

var $lc = new LocalConnection();
$lc.allowDomain("*");
$lc.connect("_example");
 
$lc.someAS1Function = function($message) {
  trace("AS3 to AS1: " + $message);
}
 
myButton.onRelease = function() {
  $lc.send("_example", "someAS3Function", "hello world! I am AS1");
}

[glosrfc]

Originally Posted by Swooter

use the LocalConnection class... although, I don't know whether it's available in AS1

AS1 should be fine but localConnection will only work in FP6 or higher. Can't see that being a problem here though as an AS3 SWF would be targeting FP9 at least.