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Passing
Parameter to Flash Movie
Want to alter your flash movie's runtime behavior
without re-exporting it? Then you should consider parameter
passing in Flash. There are a couple of ways for a flash
movie to communicate with external world (javascript,
server side scritps...etc). In this tutorial, we will
discuss about passing parameter to a flash movie in
the way that looks like a cgi query string (no javascript,
no server side script).
Let say you have a simple movie with a piece of text
on it:
Now you want to make it possible to change the text
dynamically (by altering the parameter passing to the
movie).
Step 1
Open the fla and replace the text box with a dynamic
text, set the variable name to "mytext" in
the property panel (note: you should set the variable
name not the instance name). Then export your movie.
Step 2
Edit the page that contain the flash movie. Select
the flash movie and append "?mytext=something"
to the swf file name in Dreamweaver's property panel.
(if you want to edit the html code manually, you need
to look for the swf file name in both the <OBJECT>
and <EMBED> tag.)
Step 3
Test your HTML page! You should see the movie is now
showing whatever you put as "something". Test
more by changing the "mytext=" parameter in
the HTML page.
