Re: [Swftools-common] flashvars and swfc

[Pablo Rodríguez]

Hi Ian,

many thanks for your reply.

Ian Wilkinson wrote:
> Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > How should I declare the variables so that FlashVars can be used with 
> > them? Or do FlashVars not work with swfc-generated SWFs at all?
>
> Hi,
> I sent this yesterday, but it hasn't turned up so excuse me if you 
> receive this twice.

Fine. I received both, although the first message needed longer to arrive.

> Although I have only recently found swftools, I have worked with MM
> produced SWFs for over 5 years, so if you will indulge me I will tell you
> what I have learnt.
>
> To use FlashVars in a MM produced file, you do not declare the variable in
> the movie at all, you just use it.  You will find that if you do try to
> declare a FlashVar with a var statement in actionscript it can wipe out
> the value passed in.

Thanks, this is the part that I needed. It didn't work for me because I 
declared the variable and assigned them a value in the AS.

> We also found the the passing of FlashVars can be unreliable (in some, but
> not all versions of a browser) unless you also pass the value in the movie
> part of the embed & object tags, eg:
>
> <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE= "movie.swf?text=hello">
> <PARAM NAME=FlashVars VALUE="text=hello">
> and
> <EMBED src="movie.swf?text=hello" FlashVars="text=hello">
>
> Make sure that all variables you are passing in are in all places.  Any
> difference between FlashVars and param & embed can cause problems that are
> difficult to debug.
>
> Check out this KB for a bit more info.
> http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14253&sliceId=1 

Thanks for the explanation. It works fine now.


Pablo