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How to discover the URL of the page Flash is embedded in?
- Thread starter ClarkeB
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Yeah! That works, but how would go about assigning that string to a variable within the movie itself?
Something like...
test = getURL ("javascript:window.location"
;
trace(test);
...Doesn't work! Trace displays nothing! Regards,
Something like...
test = getURL ("javascript:window.location"
;trace(test);
...Doesn't work! Trace displays nothing! Regards,
- Thread starter
- #5
Well, here's what I ended up doing:
I created an initFlash function that reads the URL for the current page, and passes the value to a variable in the Flash movie.
<script language = "JavaScript">
<!--
function initFlash(){
window.document.varTest2.SetVariable("varTest", window.location);
}
//-->
</script>
Then, I call the initFlash function from the HTML onLoad event.
<BODY bgcolor="#CCCCFF" onLoad="initFlash()">
It seems like there ought to be a better way, but this is working!
I created an initFlash function that reads the URL for the current page, and passes the value to a variable in the Flash movie.
<script language = "JavaScript">
<!--
function initFlash(){
window.document.varTest2.SetVariable("varTest", window.location);
}
//-->
</script>
Then, I call the initFlash function from the HTML onLoad event.
<BODY bgcolor="#CCCCFF" onLoad="initFlash()">
It seems like there ought to be a better way, but this is working!
This is exactly the question I've been thinking about for some time now. Of course, this works with a JavaScript-function (as outlined by ClarkeB). The only problem is that for some browsers (IE on Mac etc.) the methods for Flash do not work at all! This is why you end up having no possibility of sending variables from the html document to the flash film.
Is there no way of checking the URL from the film itself?
Is there no way of checking the URL from the film itself?
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