Flash into Director tutorials?

Hi.
Can anybody recomend some beginners tutorials for bringing
Flash into Director?
Thanks

Sure, do you have more than one button in the Flash .swf? Do
you want to
send something unique from the Flash button, or do you just
want the
button to act as a trigger for the frame change?
You can use getURL("lingo:functionName(args)"); to call a
Lingo function
in a movie script.
You can use getURL("event:functionName,arg1"); to call a
lingo function
in a behavior attached to the Flash sprite.
You can use getURL("string to send"); to send data to a
function called
on getURL me, data in a behavior attached to the Flash
sprite.
The syntax for each is unique. The first two examples expect
any
argument to the Lingo function to be a number. You can use a
string if
you escape the quotation marks. The third example just sends
a string.
You can also send the contents of an array.
Rob
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> be
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> and
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> flash.swf out and inserted an image again, but it's
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>
> Any ideas!?
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
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>
> If i cut and paste teh code produced by flash into DW
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>
> However, if I attempt to use DW menus/commands to do
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> in
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>
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