Can Javascript trigger an action in a swf file?

Earlier I was able to create flash buttons in a swf object in a widget on a Jive page, and have each of them trigger a separate Javascript function.
That worked well.I used this in Flash:
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
Now I would like to be able to do the opposite.
I would like a Javascript function to trigger a swf to go to a particular frame in the movie.
Is that possible, and if so, How do I do it?
There are several widgets with each their own Flash object on the page. The Widgets can be adressed separtely by their H3 title.
The reason for wanting to do this is to stop flash playback without unloading the swf with another movie in a different widget is started.

Hi Nabren
Let me explain a bit more in detail what I am doing:
The page includes several HTML widgets, let us say they are called:
widget_1 importing flash_file_1.swf
widget_2 importing flash_file_1.swf
widget_3 importing flash_file_1.swf
widget_4 importing flash_file_1.swf
My navigation is a widget with a separate swf file where the buttons trigger a Javascript function that hides or reveals the widgets I want to show below.
All the widgets are loading on page load but only some of them are visible.
The swfs are essentially flash files that have sub navigation buttons.
lets say:
button_1
button_2
button_3
This is my way to get multiple pages to be accessible in one widget.
Clicking a button takes you to a different frame with a different page layout.
Some of the pages contain Flash video which auto starts. (they are located each in their own movie clip)
My objective is to be able to stop any video that might be running when clicking another button for another widget.
Currently each swf is delivered in an iFrame that calls up a HTML page with the Flash object in it.
This allows me to send the content of each iFrame to about:blank when clicking another button (essentially unloading the iframe content) and load it again on demand.
This however causes the iFrame content to disappear for a moment and reload, which is not a very elegant user experience.
It kills the benefit of the content preloading.
Therefor I would much rather be able to control the timeline in each individual swf from a add callback function in Javascript.
The Flash object could be located directly in the HTML widget if that would work better.
That way I could say something like this:
function f1(){
onclick:
widget_1 importing flash_file_1.swf : go to and play frame 1
widget_2 importing flash_file_2.swf : go to and stop on frame 15.
widget_3 importing flash_file_3.swf : go to and stop on frame 10.
widget_4 importing flash_file_4.swf : go to and stop on frame 20.
function f2(){
onclick:
widget_1 importing flash_file_1.swf : go to and stop on frame 10.
widget_2 importing flash_file_2.swf : to and play frame 1
widget_3 importing flash_file_3.swf : to and stop on frame 10.
widget_4 importing flash_file_4.swf : to and stop on frame 20.
-and so on…
This would be beautiful! I would be able to keep the swfs loaded at all time and be ready to play as soon as the next button is clicked.
Question 1: Would I have to add any code to the flash files?
Question 2: Would you be able to help with the correct code/ syntax to make the javascript work?
Thank you for your time!
ggaarde

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Hey thanks for the response (seems that most responses
are gender specific around here :) )!No, they are not. Ask a good question (not "do my homework for me") and ask it specifically, and you will get good help whatever your gender. I am a girl; I make no attempt to hide this. I have always gotten good, solid advice from this forum without any reference to my gender, without any ascerbic remarks, without scorn from the respondant.
You are probably referring to the "girl needs som help" thread or other recent threads from girls (well maybe girls, who knows).
The content of these posts were:
1) asking to help with blatant cheating on homework
2) extremely vague
3) used the OPs gender as an excuse for 1) and/or 2)
Using your gender as an excuse for being unable to put code together and requesting help with cheating:
-implies girls are too stupid to do math, programming, engineering
-implies that girls who are in these fields are freaks/mutants/other
-implies that gender is an exucse for laziness
-implies that girls cannot think logically
-implies that girls do not have to follow rules of integrity, or that girls have no integrity
Such posts understandibly raise the ire of women software engineers who have worked hard to get where they are. (And also of male software engineers who can see through the request as a play on a stereotype)
It is akin to a girl coming to my office hours and saying "I have my mechanics final exam tomorrow, but I didn't study all semester because I'm a girl and math is too haaaaard"
Honestly, I would try to help the girl as much as I could, not because she's a girl, but because it is part of my duty, my responsibility, to help students.
But before I could do it, I would have to count to ten a few times to get my temper under control.
jen

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This is my first post for advise, although fairly conversant
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I am developing a new full screen background style website
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this re-aligns to the top centre of a page when user scales the
browser window.
I then have the content area (centre_content) movie clip ...
this realigns to the centre of the page when a user scales the
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Thanks Sketchsta for you code. This looks like we're on the
right lines as I see what the code is trying to do.
Unfortunately though I can't seem to get this to work?
I created a new file to get rid of other scripting that was
going on and have placed a movie clip called centre_content onto
the main timeline in frame 1 ... then I have applied your script to
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I also tried putting the script onto the first frame inside
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either.
Regarding the pre-loader ... can I simply build this into the
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Thanks in advance for your support, it is much appreciated.
Adrian

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