I'm pretty sure Flash 9 has built in metadata capabilities, although
I've never used them and I'm not aware of any way to access them from
Actionscript code. Here's some of the arguments you can use with
mxmlc.
-metadata.contributor <name>
-metadata.creator <name>
-metadata.date <text>
-metadata.description <text>
-metadata.language <code>
-metadata.localized-description <text> <lang>
-metadata.localized-title <title> <lang>
-metadata.publisher <name>
-metadata.title <text>
Of course, it's probably Flash 9 only.
On 7/20/06, The Helmsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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