Query String in Flash

[salim_designer]

I have a dynamic text field and the variable name for it is "name". I want to change this text field using query string.

I have two pages.
1) Where there is a link to the flash page called "Click here"

2) The second page is flash html page and the name of the page is "hello.html".

Both the files are in the same folder and I am using the following code as a hyperlink with "Click here".

<a href="hello.html?name=John">Click here</a>

I want the name field to print "John" but it does not work.

Please help

[sprout74]

You need to create the querry string in the Object/Embed tags for the Flash Object.

see mm tutorialon how to pass variables to a movie.

You will need to use a scripting language to write the querry string into the HTML tags that then pass the values to the Flahs movie.

good luck,

sprout

[pellepiano]

The reason it does not qork is its embedded in html, calling a swf will work though.

Embed the recieving swf in some javascript embed code and it will work with the html too ( the textfield has to be in the main timeline ).

<script language="JavaScript">
document.write ('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" '
+'codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" '
+'WIDTH=750 HEIGHT=500> <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="knock.swf'+document.location.search+'">'
+'<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>'
+'<EMBED src="knock.swf' +document.location.search+'" ' 
+'quality=high  WIDTH=750 HEIGHT=500 '
+'TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"></EMBED></OBJECT>')
</script>