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Making Connections—Simple Use of LocalConnection Objects


Thomas Higgins

Thomas Higgins

Technical Product Manager

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. About LocalConnection Objects
  3. How To Implement LocalConnection Objects
Created:
04 April 2005
User Level:
Beginner

During the past few years I've often heard of developers in situations where they need to have two different pieces of content, that are both running on a single client machine, exchange messages and information with each other. These have involved cases where:

  • Multiple movies were playing in a single browser window
  • Movies within a browser while at the same time a projector was running on the desktop
  • A movie created with Macromedia Director contained an embedded SWF file that was being used on stage as a sprite

In all these cases and in any other combinations you might have, there is a rather simple and straightforward solution that allows any number of movies, all running on the same client machine, to exchange messages and information at will. That solution is the use of LocalConnection objects.

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Director MX 2004

Tutorials and sample files:

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About the author

Tom Higgins has worked at Macromedia for the past six years. He started out as team lead in Tech Support, then joined Director Quality Assurance. He is currently Director Technical Product Manager. Tom hosts the DirectorDev website.You can read his blog here.