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Passing Variables Syntax Question

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GeeBee2

GeeBee2

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Is there a way to pass the name of a file to my movie, right now I have it hard coded with the name, how do I pass it the name of a file via a variable instead. I am somewhat familar with ASP and Javascript

Thanks in advance

var quizItems=new Array();
var myData=new XML();
myData.ignoreWhite=true;
myData.onLoad=onQuizData;
myData.load("stop();
 
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You can add it to your object/embed source code.

Code: 
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="[URL unfurl="true"]http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"[/URL] width="550" height="400" id="default" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="default.swf[highlight]?variableName=whatever[/highlight]" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="default.swf[highlight]?variableName=whatever[/highlight]" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="default" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"[/URL] />
</object>

You would access that variable at _root.variableName.

Hope it helps!

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!
 
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Thanks Pixl8r,

for putting that together for me, What would the correct syntax be in my falsh document.

so instead of this
myData.load("
is this the correct syntax? do I put it in quotes?
myData.load("myvariable name here");


Thanks
 
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The other way to pass variables from an HTML to a SWF is to use [tt]FlashVars[/tt] parameter.

Object tag:
[tt]<PARAM NAME=FlashVars VALUE="xmlPath=[/tt]

Embed tag:
[tt]<EMBED SRC="yourMovie.swf" FlashVars="xmlPath=[/tt]

Once set, [tt]FlashVars[/tt] are accessible as[tt] _root[/tt] variables.
[tt]//
myData.load(_root.xmlPath)
//[/tt]

For more info go to: <
Kenneth Kawamoto
 
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Thanks Kenneth, you da man!

That worked perfectly, I am confused about one thing though
below is the code that I am using to play the movie. I want to pass the variable newquiz to the movie. I have tried

<PARAM NAME=FlashVars VALUE="xmlPath=newquiz">

That doesn't work - I know it is probably a syntax issue, any thoughts?

<%
newquiz ="'testing to see if I can write the varible out
response.write(newquiz)
%>

<body>
<PARAM NAME=FlashVars VALUE="xmlPath=<embed src="quiz_movie.swf" flashvars="xmlPath= height="400" ></embed>
</body>
 
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Thanks again Kenneth, you put me in the right direction, this is what I ended up doing.
<%
newQuiz = " & thisMovie & "?embed"
%>

I could probably take the ?embed out, but it works and use the syntax below for the FLASH object


<PARAM NAME=FlashVars VALUE="xmlPath=<%=newQuiz%>">
<embed src="quiz_movie.swf" flashvars="xmlPath=<%=newQuiz%>" width="550" height="400" ></embed>
 
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