Re: FLASH: passing variables back to flash

[John Dowdell]

At 10:10 AM 8/14/0, Catherine Owen wrote:

> I'm using Cold Fusion pages to pass around variables in the URL.

> Is there a way for flash to pick up the variable and then jump

> to a specific place in the movie?


Cath, I trust you've read the reference to Erika's technote in the parallel

thread (if not, then a search of the Flash technotes with keyword

"variable" would pull it up).


For navigation control, one additional wrinkle is that the SWF file streams

in linearly... if the HTML tells the SWF to jump to the middle of the file,

then it would still have to load the entire front half first anyway. For

non-linear access people often use multiple smaller SWFs. (If you're sure

the entire SWF is already in the browser cache then this is less of an

issue.)


jd






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