User Guide

Using Flash and Other Interactive Media Types 303
• To specify an event message, specify the word event followed by a colon, the name of a
handler you will write in Director, and a parameter (if any) to pass along with the event.
For example, in Flash, you can specify this in the Network URL field:
event: FlashMouseUp “Dali”
In Director, you write this handler:
on FlashMouseUp me whichFrame
go to frame whichFrame
end
When the Director script receives the FlashMouseUp message and the whichFrame parameter,
the movie jumps to the frame specified by whichFrame, which is the frame “Dali”.
• To specify a Lingo statement, specify the word lingo, followed by a colon, followed by the
Lingo statement that you want Director to execute.
For example, in Flash, you can specify this in the Network URL field:
lingo: go to frame “Dali”
When Director receives the getURL message from the Flash movie, the movie immediately
executes the Lingo statement. In this case, the movie jumps to the frame containing the
marker “Dali”.
• To send XML data from a Flash sprite or a global Flash object to Lingo, use the
XMLobject.send ActionScript method. It includes the parameters URL and targetWindow.
Then include an
on sendXML handler in your Lingo. This handler takes the same parameters,
as follows:
on sendXML me, URL, targetWindow, xmlData
The xmlData parameter is the XML data contained in the original XMLObject. You can then
add Lingo to the handler to process the XML data. A common action is to send the XML data
to the URL and await the response of the server located at the URL, as in this example:
on sendXML me, URL, targetWindow, xmlData
gotoNetPage URL, targetWindow
postNetText(URL, xmlData)
end
You can place handlers to capture events from Flash movies in a Flash sprite or cast member script
or in a frame or movie script. The event follows the normal Director message hierarchy.