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How do I use inputted text in swfs loaded into a project?

I have created a movie which loads external swfs. I have an input text field in one movie which asks for the persons name. I need to be able to pull and use the name in other swfs that are loaded later, such as the quit one. I created a global variable, and tried calling that, but it shows up as "undefined" in the other swfs when it should show the name.

Hope someone can help with a solution that isn't too complex (newbie here) and doesn't require me to rebuild the project work that I've got so far!

TIA,
wordee

h8tow8

Well, If i have this correct, if you define a variable such as

var Num:Number = 0

on your base movie, you should be able to assign and retrieve values from that variable by using

_root.Num

Maybe give some more information about what you have tried

wordee

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Does your answer require the text to be inputted in the root or main movie? The way my program is set up, it is not. It is gathered in one of the other swfs that the root movie calls using the LoadMovie function.
Is it not possible to get it from that? (Thank you for the response.)

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wordee

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thank you very much! I just got this, and the project was due two days ago, so I turned it in "broken", but I will use the knowledge learned here to improve any new ones that I build.

Regards,
wordee