Re: [flasher] New Update: Loading variable from Javascript

[Helen Triolo]

Brian, 


Do you have swliveconnect=true in your embed tag?  It has to be there

for js-flash communications to work in Netscape.


Regards,

Helen 

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"Kortland, Brian" wrote:

> 

> HI All,

> 

> You may recall I had given up on importing variables from a text file and

> found that I could use javascript -- documentation is severly lacking!

> 

> Well, I have had mixed levels of success. I have been able to set a variable

> in Flash from javascript embedded in my page. I simply created a variable

> that pointed to my movie flatmap and then used the SetVariable command which

> is mapped to my movie clip variable (/Vars:link) and set the variable to

> "uwtools"

> 

> //<script language="JavaScript">

> //<!--

> //var movie = window.document.flatmap;

> //movie.SetVariable("/Vars:link", "uwtools");

> //-->

> //</script>

> 

> "uwtools" is actually the name of a web page that I want to pass dynamically

> to a flash button that activates a hyperlink to the uwtools.htm page. If

> this would work I could pass many different variables to access different

> pages from my flash interface.

> 

> When I run this in IE is works perfectly. Netscape fails. I dig a little

> deeper and find the error message "movie contains no properties".

> 

> Anyone have any advice?

> 

> Regards,

> 

> Brian Kortland