Re: FlashVars

by "Andy Innes" <andy(at)pixelchurch.com>

 Date:  Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:40:51 +0200
 To:  "Andy Innes" <andy(at)pixelchurch.com>,
<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
 References:  KENDER pixelchuk30fmn
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Further to this - the embed tag is working in Mozilla
(FlashVars="frameNumber=65"), but the object tag is not working in explorer,
so it would seem that it's a syntax problem for IE. Any ideas?

Andy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Innes" <andy(at)pixelchurch.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 11:52 AM
Subject: FlashVars


> Has anybody had experience with passing variables to a Flash file from
html?
>
> I have a html page (changing to ASP once the markup code is sorted) with
the
> following code in the Flash <.object> tag:
>
> <param name="movie" value="flash/navbar.swf"><PARAM NAME="FlashVars"
> VALUE="frameNumber=65"><param name="quality" value="high"><param
> name="SCALE" value="noborder"><embed src="flash/navbar.swf" width="750"
> height="110" quality="high"
> pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
> type="application/x-shockwave-flash" scale="noborder"
> FlashVars="frameNumber=65"></embed>
>
> The idea being that there is a variable called "framenumber" on frame 1 of
> my Flash file with the instruction in actionscript "goto 'framenumber'".
For
> some reason I can't get this to work and the flash file continues to play
> frame 1 to 5 preload and then continue as normal, stopping on frame 10.
>
> Example url: http://www.concordcreativity.com/press.htm
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Andy
>
>
>

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