getting variable from Url to use in movie

[womblies]

hey

i have a flash movie and i want to get a variable into to movie depending on what link that the user clicks on in a jsp page, this varible will then be used to decide what menu items to show in the flash movie

example of jsp page with links
</html>
<tr>
<td class=&quot;topic&quot;>
<a href=&quot;FirstbaseLogin.jsp?pTOPIC=ADMIN&pGARDA=Administration&quot; target=&quot;topFrame&quot;>Administration</a><br>
<tr>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class=&quot;topic&quot;>
<a href=&quot;FirstbaseLogin.jsp?pTOPIC=EVENTS&pGARDA=Events&quot; target=&quot;topFrame&quot;>Events</a><br>
<tr>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

this is the page that the users and will click on to enter (can have more than 2 options)what i want to take into the flash movie is the pTOPIC=EVENTS or pTOPIC=ADMIN from the url, this then decides what menu to show

the flash movie uses remoting to dynamiclly create the menu items for the user

 

[oldnewbie]

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/set_variables.htm#querystring

Regards,

 

[billwatson]

query string should not be used with remoting

use the results object to access your variable

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[PaulFynch]

document.write(' <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=&quot;flash/mymovie.swf?var='js var here'&quot;> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000000> ');

whenever the variable &quot;var&quot; is present in the url, it will pass into the swf
cheers
paul

 

[womblies]

cheers guys that worked great for me