passing variables from one movie to another

[MJB3K]

Hi, is there a way of passing variables from a loaded movie into a new loaded movie??

e.g.

I have the base movie, and in that is loaded news.swf.

Is there anyway of passing variables from news.swf into the new news_detail.swf movie??

I did think of the global var but don't see how to use it.

Any ideas??

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Martin

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[oldnewbie]

_global.my_var = "value";

Then from any movie...

trace(_global.my_var);

Or...
new_var = _global.my_var;
trace(new_var);

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[MJB3K]

cant get it to work?? It keeps coming up as undefined...

Why would it come up as undefined?

Would you be able to make me a sample because i cant see why its not working...


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Martin

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[oldnewbie]

Be better if you posted a link to your own .fla(s) & setup!

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[billwatson]

then just pass it as query string

someClip.loadMovie("news.swf?myvar="+myvar)

not 100% sure as i dont use it but i feel you cant use _global in this way

think it just works on the timeline of the movie its declared in plus any other movie clips in that movie

when you load a new movie into an empty clip i dont think _global works hence undefined

 

[ComputerPerson_imported]

Are you loading news_details.swf into the movie itself or is it on another part of an HTML page?

 

[MJB3K]

into the base movie itself

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Martin

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