You could try using flashVars instead of appending the parameters to the end of the URL. I don't think flashVars has a limit. May be less hassle than switching to Remoting.
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16417 Cheers, Ian On 12/19/05, Corban Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the best practice for grabbing variables from a database using cfm > and the using these inside of a flash movie? I am not a cfm developer but I > have one here at work that has been helping me with a project I am currently > working on. We are running into a problem that flash cannot interpret a > query large string... > > What we are ending up with when trying to bring the variables into flash > is a long string in the embed tag with delimiters for an array. Something > like... > > Characters.swf?character1&description1&episoes1&etc... > > All I can figure out is that there is a limit to the string length that > flash is able to grab. Is this true? If so what's a work around? > > I hope all this makes sense! Thanks all! And I am looking forward to the > in site! Thanks! > > > Corban Baxter |rich media designer |www.funimation.com > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

