If you are loading one movie to another use following technique:
Main movie
Main movie variable defined:
Var testVar:String = "Hello world";
External movie loaded to level 1:
External movie variable defined:
Var testVar:String = "Hello world - external";
Now let's load external movie to level 1:
Trace(_level0.testVar) prints "Hello world";
Trace(_root.testVar) prints "Hello world - external";
Trace(_level1.testVar) prints "Hello world - external";
Then same external movie we'll load to some mc called "container_mc" which
located on the main movie timeline:
Trace(_level0.testVar) prints "Hello world";
Trace(_root.testVar) prints "Hello world";
Trace(_root.container_mc.testVar) prints "Hello world - external";
Trace(_level0.container_mc.testVar) prints "Hello world - external";
Hope it will help you to undestand Flash scope
Igor V. aka The Helmsman
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rifled
Cloaca
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 5:29 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files?
Are you simply opening the SWF file directly, or loading it into a wrapper
SWF?
If you're loading it directly... it's just
_root.var1
_root.var2
...
If you're loading it into a wrapper, like so:
_root.myClip.loadMovie("path/to/my/movie.swf");
once it loads, you'll be able to access the data with:
_root.myClip.var1
_root.myClip.var2
...
Make sure your movie has loaded. Use the MovieClipLoader class and assign
an onLoad handler to access the variables.
-rc
On 7/18/06, Jeff Stearns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I don't have any problems getting variable assignments into the SWF
> file.
>
> I have problems accessing their values when I'm playing the movie.
>
> The SWF contains some ActionScript in frame 1 which sets variables
> like title="My First Movie", year=2006.
> But how can my Flash player access those variables when it loads and
> plays the movie? Are they in some oddball namespace like
> _root.somethingOrOther....
>
> thx, jeff
>
>
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Rifled Cloaca wrote:
>
> > Or you could create a SWF using MTASC or the Flash IDE, and replace
> > the variables after it is published like this guy does:
> >
> > http://www.neurofuzzy.net/2005/01/27/swf-recombination/
> >
> >
> > On 7/16/06, Mike Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I would build a "wrapper" MovieClip class extension for your
> >> compiled SWF, and use LocalConnection to send/receive the values.
> >> That is, use LocalConnection in both the compiled swfs and in the
> >> wrapper. The wrapper is the receiver and the compiled clips are
> >> the broadcasters.
> >>
> >> http://www.osflash.org/localconnection
> >>
> >> hth,
> >>
> >> Mike
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