Hi Tracy,
You were correct! By changing the delimiter to "?", the parameters
value was picked up. I am assuming that it will also populate each name
pair instance such as: ?project=projectName&loginId=username
Would this give me document.parameters.project and
document.parameters.loginId?
Thanks,
Adrian
Tracy Spratt wrote:
It may be the "#". If you append url parameters to the swf url, you
can access them in this.parameters.
...myWidget.swf?project=myProject
I have done this, sorry I didn't think to suggest it.
Tracy Spratt
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*On Behalf Of *Adrian Williams
*Sent:* Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:51 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] SOLVED...Simply!!! Re: Passing variables
from .swf to .swf
Hi Alex,
Just for giggles, I tried that and while the document.parameters
object exists, it's empty. I also tried several other possible areas
and they are the same. Was worth trying though!
Thanks,
Adrian
Alex Harui wrote:
In theory, instead of decoding this.url, you can look at the
document.parameters.projectName
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Adrian Williams
*Sent:* Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:35 AM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] SOLVED...Simply!!! Re: Passing variables
from .swf to .swf
Hi All,
First, thanks very much to all the great ideas that were thrown
at me on this one...in the end, we were all very much over
complicating this...
Quite simply, from the dashboard, in each SWFLoader, I simply add
a deeplink (probably not needed but...) with a simple name-pair.
I.E. SWFLoader.source = widget.source + "#project=" + projectName;
Then in the widgets, I simply access this.url, which is unique to
each instantiation of the widget and simply substring the url to get
the projectName...
var urlString:String = String(this.url);
projectName =
urlString.substring(urlString.search("=")+1);
This works perfectly and gets the data that is specific to the
tab....and in this way, my users only have to endure one data load
event instead of multiply recurring events every time they change tabs.
Thanks!
Adrian
Amy wrote:
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Tracy Spratt"
<tspr...@...> <mailto:tspr...@...> wrote:
> Using a model and events is probably "best", but you can also go
> straight through dom references. Listeners can be added to
dynamically
> created components, so you would not need specific, named
references
to
> the child swfs.
Note that you probably want to still keep references to your swfs
somewhere, so that you can remove the listeners if you need to make
sure they get garbage collected. You'll probably want to do this
in an
Array or ArrayCollection so that it can expand with the number of
swfs
you create.
Or you can just use one swf and move it around :)
HTH;
Amy
