Hi Mitch
MIAW and Shockwave don't mix.. I believe the usual line is that it would be
a security risk to be able to open a MIAW in Shockwave. Therefore they are
disabled. Having said that, there are a few things that you can do to
imitate them but it all depends on how close to the edge you want to go in
terms of getting it to work. Here are some of your alternatives:
1). Have multiple SW's on a single html page and communicate between them
using getPref and setPref.
2). Have multiple SW's on a single html page and communicate between them
using MUS Xtra using peer to peer connection.
3). Have multiple SW's on a single page and communicate between them using
javascript and the externalEvent etc...... -> mental note: due to browser
inconsistencies and the fact that you will need to write any comm routines
in both javascript and vbscript and you will completely alienate the IE on
the MAC, you may well want to go to favourite drinking establishment before
attempting this process :-)
4). You can use multiple browser windows and communicate between them again
using methods mentioned above, but point 3 above would become just that much
more complex as now you have a new layer of complexity to deal with.
5). If you don't need completely free floating windows ie. visible outside
of the bounds of your original embedded movie, and depending on what you
need them to do, you can use LDM's. This isn't without its hurdles and I've
worked with them extensively over the past few months in D8 and D8.5 and
come up against some pretty interesting senerios. I've always managed to get
past every barrier I've hit but I haven't hit them all. If you don't know
what an LDM is, it is a linked Director Movie. Rob Romanek (sp?) has an
excellent starter article on DOUG and James Newton used to have some great
resources on LDMs. You might want to do some searching of the Direct-L
archives on LDM's to see what you can pull up n relation to these.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely
Mark R. Jonkman
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