6. Managing External Communication

Flash provides powerful tools to communicate with other applications, such as Web browsers, and with other files, such as images, videos, and other Flash movies. Flash can link to your favorite Web sites, trigger a JavaScript function, or even relay information to and from servers for data-driven applications. Although many of these functions that connect to databases are beyond the scope of this book, this chapter introduces you to some of the most popular ways Flash can communicate ...

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