Michael,

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No.

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That you can do, but you have to write you functions to be dependent on
variables. You can load all the variables you want from a text file or XML.


David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Michael,

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Them's the breaks, though.

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That would certainly do it, but are you planning to if/else your way
through the whole API?

What's your goal here, in the end? I know you want to control a SWF via
external files, but ... well, why? Once a SWF is compiled, it's compiled.
I'm not knocking ya, just trying to understand what your goal is.


David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Is there any way to run an actionscript that is phrased as a string? Such as:

killTurkey = "trace('killed turkey');";

The reason I ask is that I would like to be able to control the actions of the
movie from an external text file or xml file.

That's what I thought. The problem is making different interface elements and I
have no way of anticipating exactly every kind of action I will want to call.
Instead of saying something like:

In the text file:

action = ?gotoAndStop()?;
frame = ?2?;

Then in flash have a function that checks what action what said:

function doAction ()
{
if (action == ?gotoAndStop()?)
{
gotoAndStop(frame);
} else if (action == ?getURL?)
{
//get URL
} yada yada
}

Is this the best way?

If you are using a texfield for a link (HTML enabled), you could use asfunction:

You're welcome. But just to let you know... it has drawbacks:

1. You can only pass strings into the function, for example, you can't pass an
Object to the "function string" using callAsFunc.

2. The "parameters" cannot contain "," as it is used to seperate all the
parameters.

if you have

action = "play"

say

then you can use

this[action]();

and that will call the function indirectly by name
--
Jeckyl