Dynamically writing flashvars

[MaxManNH]

Can anyone tell me how to get a flashvar into flash without using javascript? Is it even possible anymore?

I have a flash movie embedded in an aspx page that needs to dynamically load an xml file based on a parameter in the querystring. Everywhere I look all I see are posts telling me that the only way to do it is to add the flashvar to the AC_FL_Runcontent script, however I can't be certain that all my clients will have javascript enabled and I know at least a few who are not allowed to have it turned on.

When I use the object and embed tags and add my flashvar param and inline tag I get nothing in the loaderInfo object in my movie.

Am I out of luck with AS3 in this regard?

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

Look at this page, which even includes an ASP example:

http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/flashVars/index.html

then in Flash make sure you're looking for the variables in the main time line. You would say:

var vars:Object=this.loaderInfo.parameters;

and that would give you an object variable, vars, that has each of the things set up in flashvars.

[MaxManNH]

Thank you for the link Colin.

I got it working, but I noticed a little hiccup. The Event.COMPLETE event never seems to fire in IE7 when you add your event listener to the loaderInfo object.

I added the listener to Event.INIT and now it seems to be working fine. Thanks again for the link to the tute!

[Colin Holgate]

As far as I know the loaderinfo is there as soon as the swf opens. I've never used a listener to wait for it.

[MaxManNH]

Interesting. I simply copied the code from the link you send me wholesale. The author is using an event to verify the loaderInfo object is completed. I don't know what the deal with that is, but either way it works. Thanks again.