Variables

How can i pass variables from one swf to another?

I tried this, but it do not work:

I have two swf files.
1.swf action
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var thisdata = "hello world!";
loadMovieNum("2.swf", 4, "POST");

2.swf action
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_root.createTextField("txtfield", 1, 500, 500, 1000, 1000);
_root.txtfield.text = _root.thisdata

Thank You,
Joni

These are two seperate SWFs? Are they in the same page? OR are they in the same movie?

Two separate files, they are in the same movie. First one loads second one.
If i would not want to send variables it will work nicely.

I just need a method to pass variables between swf files. I cannot find solution anywhere and im nearly desperate. So, am i in right track here? What is the common way of passing variables?

Well I am not sure if this is related, but when you load one movie into another, the root level changes to the movie LOADING the second movie. Hence the code:

_root.createTextField("txtfield", 1, 500, 500, 1000, 1000);
_root.txtfield.text = _root.thisdata

in the second movie would (I believe) actually try to create a texfield in the root timeline of the first movie (since that is now the root). Is this what you are trying to do?

Also, I am not sure why you are specifying a POST method for loading a movie in:
loadMovieNum("2.swf", 4, "POST");

this is generally only done if you are sending variables. Here you are trying to access internal variables.

Thank you, i learned from your post.

However, I changed my way to solve my problem complitely, because i just realised that passing variables through files is not the right way. Because i load swf files dynamically.

At present moment I am still in the corner.

I have two files, "index.swf" and "valikko.swf" (1.swf and 2.swf in previous post). I read database with LoadVars.load to get content for the flash.

Loading data to "index.swf" works fine but it do not work from "valikko.swf".
That is the reason i tried to pass variables loaded from db.

I Thought previously:
"Damn! This dont work.. OK, loading data wont work from valikko.swf, but it works from index - so do not panic, just pass them to index. "
-- and then i got new problems

Now i Thought:
"Because loading works from index, theres no any good reason why it wont work from another file. Actionscript is same in both files. And this makes me feel odd."

SCRIPT: (yes, there Is onload evenhandler above)
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try {
select_lv2.load("http://localhost/flashdata/?site=www.xxx.fi")
}
catch (myError:Error) {
trace("error caught: "+myError);
}
finally {
trace('finally here')
}
---------------------------------------------------------------------

BUT

I do not get any apache log - so apache do not ever even get that load command! Flash just prints "finally here" without errors.

From index.swf it works.

Thank You,
Joni

Hey!

I found the solution. The second swf file had publish setting of actionscript 1.0. Works when set to 2.0.. :yikes:

Later,

Joni
:smoov: