Hey -

I have an SWF that basically just has mc placeholders where I load other swfs. One of those swfs is a login movie. If the user is logged in then it stores a variable uservalidated = true.

That is fine, the problem is that I want to make sure that the placeholder movie (which has navigation links) wont let the user continue on into the site unless uservalidated = true.

How do I pass the variables from one loaded swf to the main swf?

I can send and receive variables from a db, but I have never done any swf to swf.

Any help or links would be great.

KC

Actually I have no clue as to how exactly you have set things up, so i'll
give you some general hints and tips
1. start having a look in the manual on the subject of working with
different timelines (I'm not joking, it's there ;-)

Each flash movie has it's own timeline called _root. From each movieclip on
that timeline you can refer to a variable declared on _root as
_root.varName. If the timeline of only one level up; refer to the timeline
below it as _parent.varName

If you want to go from _root to a variable declared inside a movieclip (sya
we gave it the instancename myFirstMc), then from root you could reach that
variable by using myFirstMc.varName Say myFirstMc would contain a nested
second movieclip called mySecondMc (I'm running out of creativity here ;-)
then from _root you would read a variable inside mySecondMc with
_root.myFirstMc.mySecondMc.varname etc. etc.

As obviously you are not loading anything into a level I will not get into
that; look it up in the manual. For now just remember that each level has
it's own root.

Okay; you may have a coffee now and let it sink in.

John

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