Can I pass input to a Flash movie? 1

[tekdeth]

I am currently making flash banners for a website. I want to have a user be able to click on a flash banner and then jump to another url.

The problem I run into is that I want to be able to use the same banner on different pages to link to different pages.

I tried wrapping the flash movie within an anchor tag but that did not work. I then made a link symbol within the movie except the URL must be static there.

I know flash has the ability to read in a file that contains variables. I want to stay away from that to make it easier for my customers to maintain the banners.

So my question is is it possible to pass in a URL from the html code?

 

[davdesign]

hi

If all your pages/banners are kept on the same server you could load variables from a text file containing:

1="

http://www.linkone.html"&2="http://www.linktwo.html"&3=......

etc,etc

Then, load these variables into your banner and have the banner link action as:

getURL: random(4+1) (set to expression and assuming 5 different links) (and I'm writing blind so I don't know if this syntax is spot-on)

This method assumes that you want the link to be random, so oI don't know if it will help you exactly, but it's worth a try anyway.

Hope it helps
dD davdesign@hotmail.com

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[tekdeth]

Our site has a associate program. People place banners on their site and if a customer comes to our site through their banner we compensate them.

The way it currently works is like this......

<a href=&quot;

http://signup.foobar.com/cgi-bin/hln.cgi/320/3202640/A&quot;><img

src=&quot;banners/A.gif&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;60&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;><;/a>

I want the new banner code to look like this......

<EMBED
src='

http://www.notfoobar.com/banner.swf'

loop='true'
quality='high'
bgcolor='#000000'
WIDTH='468'
HEIGHT='60'
TYPE='application/x-shockwave-flash' PLUGINSPAGE='

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash'></EMBED>

But I need to somehow get the flashbanner to link to

http://signup.foobar.com/cgi-bin/hln.cgi/320/3202640/A

like in the first example.

The constraints of the design are:
I need to create HTML code dynamically depending on the associate.
I need to make it easy for them to cut and paste
It needs to be backwards compatable with our old system.

Thanks for help BTW.

-Jerry

 

[kalimba]

I think that what you are looking to do is this:

Place this code in your typical html embed flash movie
<param name=movie
value=getURL.swf?page=

http://www.yahoo.com>

the important part is after the question mark. that is where you are passing the movie the page to go to. You are assigning it to the variable &quot;page&quot;

in your flash code your &quot;on release&quot; action should look like this:
on (release) {
mypage = page;
getURL (mypage, &quot;_blank&quot;}

&quot;mypage&quot; is recieving the input of the &quot;page variable&quot;
and is then passed to the getURL action.

I think you can even skip the step of assigning &quot;page&quot; to &quot;mypage&quot; and pass &quot;page&quot; straight into the getURL parameters.

To change the link all you need to do is change the address after the question mark in the &quot;value=&quot; part of the html.

I hope this helps

 

[tekdeth]

Oh my God!!!! Thank you so much that worked!!!

Woo Hoo!