Have you heard of FSCommand? I came across this before but never used it.
Here's a link:
http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/fscommand/
I haven't seen anything involving CF, but that should change real soon with
harpoon.
Richard Ramos
Network Administrator
Softitler Net, Inc.
www.softitler.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kortland, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:27 AM
Subject: RE: Passing values to Flash + a related question.
> HI All,
>
> I apologize for my wordiness up front. There really is not a lot of info
> available on this so I wanted to be as detailed as I could be.
>
> I just had a similar experience and had been dealing with Flashers mailing
> list and have to say many people did not have a solid answer on this. I
> myself have four different (supposed) Flash manuals and only one of them
> (Flash 4 Bible) even has the word javascript in its index.
>
> My scenario was this: I had a client who wanted a site where there was a
> flash animated map. This map would contain country names which would link
to
> documents. There were six or seven different sections of the site all
> needing the map, but each map needed to point to a different page. I
thought
> holy sh*t! Now I need to create seven of these maps and even worse
maintain
> them.
>
> What I was able to do was create a single map and pass javascript
variables
> to create my various URLs. Now the same map is loaded in each section of
the
> site but my variable change the page these maps point to. I tried the txt
> file routine but there are caching implications with flash that have to be
> worked around. Javascript is the way to go...at least in my case.
>
> Here is what I did...
>
> 1. You need make sure the "name" is set in your EMBED tag code and "id" is
> set in your object code that is generated by flash. I went into the code
and
> just did this by hand. You also MUST have the attribute
> 'swliveconnect="true"' in your EMBED tag or netscape will fail to pick up
> the variable (this is something I learned the hard way).
>
> 2. After your Flash code in your page place in a javascript like the one
> that follows:
>
> <script language="JavaScript">
> <!--
> var movie = window.document.flatmap;
> movie.SetVariable("/Vars:link", "uwtools");
> file://-->
> </script>
>
> Line 1: What is happening is I first set a variable (var) with the name
> movie which is my flash movie object which I called "flatmap" - this is
> where javascript will need to read the name/id attribute I mentioned
> earlier.
>
> Line 2: The SetVariable Method of flash is initiated for the movie. The
> required areguments for this funtion are the 'name' of the variable (I
have
> my variable called "link" which is in a movie clip called "Vars"). The
> second argument is the value I want to pass to my varable - in my example
> the name of the page I want all links to point to - 'uwtools'.
>
> What I experience is that you need to place this after the flash code or
> else your object won't yet exist and you will get javascript errors
(object
> does not exist). You can probably place the code in the head of your
> document as a function but you would need something to then trigger the
> function. I just avoided that.
>
> Within my Flash file my linked buttons have the following code:
>
> On (Press)
> Get URL ("/cfaiuenv/"&/vars:link&".cfm")
> End On
>
> When you create your links in flash they must be set as expressions (not
as
> string literals). In my url the code "&/vars:link&" is where my page name
is
> passed in via the 'link' variable. The other junk is stuff I have coded in
> for my particular site.
>
> My experience with performance is that maybe once out of every 10-15 times
I
> click on a link the variable doesn't seem to pass. I have not isolated the
> cause. I might need to add some code within Flash to grab/test for
variable
> info but I currently have no solution. It may be an abberation. Does
anyone
> have any ideas??
>
> Try this link as well, it talks about Flash methods. Could be a little
more
> details though:
>
>
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/scr
> iptingwithflash_03.html
>
> Brian Kortland
> AIU E-Business
> AIU URL: http://aignetprod.aig.com/cfaiunet/
> tel 212.770.7617, fax 212.968.1386
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>
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