Examples of evalScript command

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Examples of evalScript command
The "evalScript" Director 7 movie in this TechNote demonstrates an easy way to have JavaScript or VBScript functions call Lingo functions within a Shockwave movie.
The movie example is provided below for download.
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Windows "evalScript" Director 7 Movie
Macintosh "evalScript" Director 7 Movie
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This movie and EvalScript are not supported in Internet Explorer 5.x or Netscape 6.x. This is due to a limitation of the browsers.
Example of "evalScript"
Setting up multiple environments to communicate with each other is not always an easy process, particularly when they use different syntax and when the debugging environments differ so much. But by working one step at a time, many things can be accomplished. (Other TechNotes can be accessed by searching with keywords such as"evalScript" and "externalEvent" that contain tips and additional information related to these topics.) The following Lingo handler will parse apart multiple arguments contained within the single string that the browser can pass to Shockwave. The HTML at the bottom of the page shows how JavaScript can piece together information from various objects in the page, before sending this compound message to Shockwave. Note: "evalScript" is fine in Lingo, but JavaScript is case-sensitive and requires "EvalScript". These small types of differences can cost time when developing this type of project.
Snippet of Lingo in a movie named "eval.dir"
--"argString" is of form "some text here,some text there" on evalScript argString set the text of field "display a" to item 1 of argString set the text of field "display b" to item 2 of argString end End of Lingo script.
HTML for a two-field passthrough to movie:

Put some text into each of these fields, and mystic technostuff will copy it.

End of HTML.
Additional information
For more instructions on related subjects, please refer to the following TechNotes:How can a Shockwave movie pass information to and from a browser? (TechNote 14617)Examples of externalEvent command (TechNote 14163)
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