macromedia flash flash remoting: I'm designing a menu system in flash for a website that uses javascript &
framesets. Whenever I select a section from the flash menu I want that section
button to change colour so that its clear that the user is now in that section.

The problem arises when I navigate to a section from a link within html. I
can get to that section alright but, seeing as I haven't used the flash menu to
get there, that section's button on the flash menu remains the same colour.

Would this be the reason why Macromedia has chosen not to highlight section
buttons in its top menu once a section has been clicked?

Flash remoting doesn't appear to cater for a flash/dhtml architecture.
Getting stuff into flash from the server, as I understand it, can only result
from actionscript inside the flash movie invoking a serverside function and
this then returns data to the swf file,which can result in something (like the
colour of a button) changing in the swf. How do you get something to change in
a swf if an event begins from outside that swf? its not just a cause of
returning a result then.

thanx in advance
finty

The way I would do it is to put a small transparent flash movie (stub) on your
HTML pages that then uses a Local Connection to communicate with your menu
system. So when the stub loads it calls a function in your menu movie. This
function then moves the playback head accordingly or does whatever it needs to
do to get the menu into the state that you need it in.

Good Luck,

Mike Weiland