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Loading external AS2 SWF in AS2

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    to a movieClip. After a while, I
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    i am working on a shopping cart project using Flash mx 2004 and PHP.
    
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  - Expanding Dynamic Text FieldI'd like to create a dynamic text field that is a fixed width, but expands
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    that does this, but I have no idea which setting change made it work and I
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    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
    
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  - scrollTrackColor solutionI hadn't seen a solution to this in the the group archives, so here is an
    article that tells you how to get it working.-
    
    http://www.person13.com/blog/archives/2004_02.html
    
    Cheers,
    TonyG

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AmarShah

Posted: 2007-12-12 3:11:44

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flash-actionscript, Loading external AS2 SWF in AS2 I want to load the external SWF file which is in AS2 in to my SWF file which is
also in AS2.. The problem I am facing is I am able to load external SWF but I
am not able to pass the Flash vars to that SWF.. Here is my Code

var _mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var _listener:Object = new Object();
_listener.onLoadInit = function(_mc:MovieClip)
{
trace("Done loading...");
}
_mcl.addListener(_listener);

this._mc1.removeMovieClip(clip_1);

this.createEmptyMovieClip("_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
_mcl.loadClip("http://www.xyz.com/xyz/xyz.swf?200711900&local=true", _mc);

So the xyz.swf is not able to read the variable local I am passing as a flash
variable..

So how can I accomplish passing flashvars to this xyz.swf

Thanks

Bob Pierce

Posted: 2007-12-12 5:00:00

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flash-actionscript >> Loading external AS2 SWF in AS2 I don't know if you can pass variables this way, but since you are hard coding them in AS why not pass them directly to _mc once your .swf has loaded?

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