Hi everyone, I'm very new to Flash and I've been experimenting and searching for days to do something that I thought would be more common and simple.

I want to be able to enter a url like "http://www.mysite.com/greetingcard.php?toname=John" where John can be replaced with any name I choose and be displayed in a dynamic text field in the flash movie.

The only thing I can find on this subject is this tutorial, http://animation.about.com/od/flasha...hpecard1_6.htm ,which I cannot get to work. It appears to be for AS1 or AS2, is there an easier way to do this in AS3? From what I've read, AS3 does not support variables for dynamic text, is that true?

I'm hoping someone can explain what this tutorial is missing before I go insane! Thanks!