How to menu buttons?

Question

I have a set of menu buttons made in flash ac3 (menu.swf). the menu buttons goes with menu.htm for example.
I have another swf for example about us (about.swf). this swf goes with about.htm.
the index.html loads the menu.swf and the main.swf.
I hope some expert can point me in the right direction:
Is it possible to make the ac3 code, able to, tell the menu.swf buttons when clicked (on the about button), to go to the about.htm but load the exact frame/label of the about.swf.
in other words what i trying is, to make it more seo friendly. to have menu.swf to go to the exact content of another swf.
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

if a swf loads a htm file, the htm file will replace the swf or open in another browser window.  the swf embedded by that htm file can be directed to a particular frame by using a query string to open the htm file and pass the frame number or label you want the embedded swf to play.
you'll need javascript in the loaded htm file to pass the url with the query string to flash where you'll parse it and extract the needed info or, you can parse the query string in javascript and pass the needed info to flash.
to communicate between js and actionscript, use the externalinterface class.
you'll need to use preloader-type code to ensure the needed frame number or label is loaded before executing a goto in your swf that's embedded by the loaded htm.