WHY did they not do it this way?

[Matt Gitchell]

OK. If anyone can get me around this problem, I'd appreciate it.


We're doing a site which tracks session IDs on a server. The way this is done

is by generating HTML dynamically that passes on the session ID when a link is

clicked.


I can't figure out how to do this aside from going through a series of

Javascript gyrations, which time and my skillset don't permit, or cookies

ditto.


WHY OH WHY can't we, in our HTML, do as follows:


<EMBED>

<PARAM NAME="MOVIE" VALUE="mymovie.dir">

<PARAM NAME="LOOP" VALUE="TRUE">


<PARAM NAME="LINK1" VALUE="http://www.macromedia.com">

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


or even


<PARAM NAME="LINK" VALUE="link1?http://www.macromedia.com">

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

</embed>


Then, when authoring the actual Flash part, we could just set the link

parameter of a button as "LINK1".


Is this unreasonable? We were set to build a site on one of our existing back

ends, and I had to go from plans to use Flash navigation everywhere to using

just a splash screen.

Grrr.


I get paid the same either way, but it's a pain when you have to fight an

uphill battle to do cool sites. So look for GIFs and imagemaps unless we're

suddenly clever.


--Matt

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Matt Gitchell

ersatz multimedia cat

mattgnavidec [dot] com

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