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passing a variable

I need to be able to open a shockwave on a page, and pass a variable called episode to it at the same time.

I need this to work in IE and Netscape on bot the PC and on a MAC, can anyone help.

Thanks.

bziemann

Richard,

On the first frame of your movie create a variable called episode and set it equal to "". Example:

episode = "";

Then add a load variable action script to load the variable value from whatever source, text, asp, php, doesn't matter. Make sure you load the variable into level0 or this won't work.
Example:

loadVariable("data.txt", 0);

Then inside the text file or asp file or whatever make sure you echo out the episode value as follows:

episode=Hello World&var2=Hello World 2

That's how you do it it's that simple. You can also visit www.flashkit.com and do a search for loadvariable and find the fla of someone who has done one for you to learn from.

For His Renown,
Brent.

RICHARDH

ASKER

Sorry, but you have missed the point. I cannot store it as a Text file as the decision of what the variable is depends on which button the user clicks in an HTML page. I need to send the variable as I open the page with the shockwave movie.

Thanks though.

Jaymol

Richard - I'm not that hot with this off the top of my head, but if you use JavaScript with TellTarget then I believe you can achieve what you're after.

Have a look at the link that Brent gave you (Flashkit). It really is a damn fine page for tutorials, FAQ, downloads etc.

Either go there or go to http://www.virtual-fx.net

They're both good sites that have your answer available.

Ta,

John.

alanmcclure

yeah john's comment sounds about right although I would not have the first clue about which javascript commands to use. good luck --someones gotta know.

shekarkr

Hi Richard.

As I already said in my reply to your earlier question, your SWF will work fine on IE and NN on the PC platform with the javascript that you'd put up.

However, b'cos of the bugs in IE for the Mac, it is not possible to use javascript to communicate with movies on the Mac platform. I also gave you the link from Macromedia which said as much :)!

So , I doubt if you'll be able to get javascript to work on the Mac.

Anyway, best of luck then!
Shekar

kimik

Hi Richard,
I agree with Shekar. Passing variables by using Javascript won't work on the Mac (Macromedia even mentions that on their site).
You could send the user input via a cgi-script that creates a text file and read the text in as Brent said..

Jaymol

You can use TellTarget to tell other movies things. Use a small SWF for the link, and get that to load the movie and send it the relevant variable information.

John.

SuperMario

Use ASP server-side and send via GET because macs won't read from POST.

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SuperMario

everything you need to know about integrating flash and ASP:

http://www.catapultic.com/resources

-D

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RICHARDH

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Am clearing up my account and just found this question still open.

Thanks for the help.

Richard.H