My bad, i got it to work now, one thing to note is that i had to change my init function (which reads the parameters in the child swf) to be triggered on applicationComplete instead of createComplete. Thanks for you help!
/Eric --- In [email protected], "Fotis Chatzinikos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you read Paul's link you will see that are other ways to read parameters > than urlvars. As you do not have access to url vars when loading inside > another swf use the technique described in the post... > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:28 PM, ericbichara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Appreaciate the help but thats not what i was asking. I am loading an > > swf into another swf and need the swf to be loaded using flashvars > > parameters. Loading this swf from an html file with flashvars works > > fine but not from another swf. :-) > > > > > > --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Paul > > Andrews" <paul@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "ericbichara" <ericbichara@> > > > To: <[email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>> > > > Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:25 PM > > > Subject: [flexcoders] Loading swf with flashvars into Flex > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have several widgets which use flashvars and i wanted to create a > > > > gallery application to showcase them in flex. I need to therefore load > > > > them into flex and pass flashvars parameters into the loaded swfs. I > > > > tryed the following: > > > > > > > > <mx:SWFLoader > > source='http://myurl/myapp.swf?param1=blah¶m2=blih'/> > > > > > > > > but the loaded swf says the params are null. Is there some way to do > > > > this? I dont want to have to change all the widgets to be able to > > > > recieve these parameters some other way than flashvars as they do now. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > Google is your friend.. > > > > > > > > http://blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/2006/07/using_flashvars_with_actionscr.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > /Eric > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Fotis Chatzinikos, Ph.D. > Founder, > Phinnovation > [EMAIL PROTECTED], >
