Control mc with external SWF?

Hello everyone,
Ok, lets say I have two SWF files.
In “SWF 1,” I have a movie clip.
The movie clip in “SWF 1” loads in an external “SWF 2” file.
Is it possible for me to have something (like a button) inside the external “SWF 2” with the ability to control something (like a movie clip) in “SWF 1?”
If so what would the path to that mc look like?
Thanks

if both are as2 swfs, then you can reference the load-target movieclip in swf1 (the loading swf) from the main timeline of swf2 (the loaded swf) by using:
this.
so, if that load-target is on swf1's main timeline, you can reference swf1's main timeline by using:
this._parent.
and if there's a movieclip mc on swf1's main timeline, you can reference it by using:
this._parent.mc1.
etc.

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I am new in Action Script and trying to create a video tutorial framwork. In this I have lots of animated SWF files in all the files I have multiple scenes as those are 5min. to 10 min. each and all the files have the relevent background and nurration voice place directly on the TIMELINE frame by frame to match lip syncing animated chreactors.
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Login.swf with login box is embedded into the Index.html
After logged in it will load another SWF which is Control panel.swf
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Here user can navigate to other chapter swf file through Chapter menu or Next and Previous buttons.
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By pressing “Pause button” animation stops but not the sound. Sound remains playing, and if I replay the swf by “Replay button” than animation restarts but sound also restarts that overlaps already playing audio.
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Using flash 8. Inserted a link to a 2:15 second swf on the internet (get URL xxx.swf) at the beginning of my fla file, it plays fine but when the swf is over, how can I make it go away, in order to continue on with my presentation?

This is an onstage presentation so there are no buttons available, just
letting it play through. Doesn't sound favorable. Thanks very much for
your help.
From:
Ned Murphy <[email protected]>
To:
rwcorgis <[email protected]>
Date:
07/16/2012 11:22 AM
Subject:
making link to external swf stop
Re: making link to external swf stop
created by Ned Murphy in ActionScript 1 and 2 - View the full discussion
If you have no control over that external swf there probably is not much
you can do outside of opening it in a separate browser window so that the
window can be closed and your original page is still showing in its
browser window..
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The only thing I can think of is that the paths are wrong
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I may not have explained this very clearly, but I would be
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I think this might be pretty simple to remedy. Well, at least I'm hoping!
A student is having trouble with drag & drop functionality when it is used in an external SWF. Basically, in our drag & drop section, we have a sheet of paper ("paper" MC) and an object we drag into it ("object" MC). When the object is released in the paper area, we go to frame 2 of "paper" MC, which consequently has an animation.
This works fine and dandy in said drag & drop section, but once the drag & drop section is loaded into our main SWF via a MC placeholder, the drag & drop functionality stops working.
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on (press) {
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If any more info is needed, I'm willing to upload both FLA files.   Although, something tells me that this is a simple issue to resolve.
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Cheers
T

with as2 you must convert that antiquated as1 code:
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