Embed tag to transver vars into movie??

I heard somebody saying you could use an embed tag (in the html of the page) to transfer a var into a movie. Like this: I've got a movie that writes a text, the text is defined in the var "text" and I want to edit the text outside the animation.

Does anyone knows how I must do this?

Sander Reuderink
http://www.xystes.com

Hiya Xystes!

You can set variables within the Flash movie from the embed tag. Do it like this:

<EMBED
src="timer.swf?variable1=value&variable2=value"
quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF
WIDTH=360 HEIGHT=100
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>

I've put the important bits in bold. Just list the variablename/value pairs one after the other in the src attribute of the Embed tag.

I hope this helps!

NETbreed
Nearly there!

May heaven bless you, netbreed!