Actionscript 3.0 :: Communicate Between 2 Document Classes?
Aug 31, 2010
I have 2 different swf files with their own separate document classes. My first SWF file is main.swf and it's document class is called Main.as (its the main container that loads in external swfs). The file being loaded into main.swf is called step1.swf and it's document class is called Step1.as. I have a next button in step1.swf that when clicked needs to tell the document class controlling my main.swf (ie Main.as) to load in the next external swf. However I don't know how to call a function in one document class to from another document class. And I don't know if that fact the swf calling the function being loaded into the other makes this situation more complicated. I've looked around but I cant seem to find the answer anywhere. Basically I need these two separate document classes to communicate between one another.
Here is the code for Main.as (the doc class for the container SWF):
Code: Select allpackage
{
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
[Code].....
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