Passing parameters from HTML to Flash Object

Well, honestly, I'd hoped to not have to embarrass myself by posting obviously flawed code instead of reading a tutorial or something. But if you think it will help, here goes:

vpcFlashVars.flashVarsLoaded=false;

vpcFlashVars.loaderComplete=loaderComplete;

vpcFlashVars.useFlashVars=useFlashVars;

this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, vpcFlashVars.loaderComplete);

function loaderComplete(e:Event)
{
   this.flashVars=this.loaderInfo.parameters;
   this.flashVarsLoaded=true;

   this.useFlashVars();       
}

function useFlashVars()
{
textBoxTest.text = vpcFlashVars;
if(vpcFlashVars.locationURL)
{
dbgText = vpcFlashVars.locationURL + "VideoPlayerDefault.xml";
}
else
{
dbgText = "VideoPlayerDefault.xml";
}

}

and here is what DW has, I modified the original because something I read said I couldn't just pass // and . so I put in %2f etc.

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="550" height="400"
  FlashVars="locationURL=http://adobefool.com/snowpeak/" id="FlashID" title="movie test">
    <param name="movie" value="mvc/VideoPlayerController.swf" />
    <param name="quality" value="high" />
    <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
    <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
    <!-- This param tag prompts users with Flash Player 6.0 r65 and higher to download the latest version of Flash Player. Delete it if you don’t want users to see the prompt. -->
    <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
    <param name="FlashVars" value="locationURL=http%3a%2f%2fadobefool%2ecom%2f%2fsnowpeak%2f" />
    <!-- Next object tag is for non-IE browsers. So hide it from IE using IECC. -->
    <!--[if !IE]>-->
    <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="mvc/VideoPlayerController.swf"
    FlashVars="locationURL=http%3a%2f%2fadobefool%2ecom%2fsnowpeak%2f" width="550" height="400">
      <!--<![endif]-->
      <param name="quality" value="high" />
      <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
      <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
      <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
      <param name="FlashVars" value="locationURL=http%3a%2f%2fadobefool.com%2fsnowpeak%2f" />

I hope I got what you needed. As you can see all I am  doing with it so far is trying to display the data in a text field to see what I got. I do actually pass off the URL to a player object but I'm still at the "I wonder how this works" stage and not doing things with it.

Message was edited by: Chris_Rehm put in the DW text.