Re: FLASH: Personalizing Once Again Clarification

[Jonathan Rose]

hi Cheri, the ?varname does not seem to be working. Thanks though for your

help.


Cheri Harder wrote:


> Hi, Jonathan, again!  Well, since I asked for the details, I guess I've made

> it my responsibility to answer, huh!  I'll give it a go, then somebody can

> correct me if I'm wrong.

>

> You COULD make it all one movie, and have the editable text-field name from

> the form be repeated as a (non-editable) text-field on the intro (same name,

> that is, you'll have to remember to follow the correct paths to get the

> variable)

>

> OR you could send the variable to the next movie by including in the button,

> after the URL, a "?varname" (without the quotes) where varname is the name

> of the text field containing the user name.  That is, in the GetURL where

> you'll put your new window info, put

> http://www.yourdomain.com/newpagename.html?varname and the intro movie has

> "varname" as the name of the text-field where you want the user name to

> show.

>

> HTH (and hope it makes sense)

>

> ~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

>

charderawsolution [dot] com

> Advantage Web Solution

> www.awsolution.com

>

> ps...some people would likely tell you to NOT change the subject line...I

> don't filter/sort that way, but some do.

>

> > The form (created in

> > Flash) would be housed in an HTML document (form.html for example) with

> some

> > kind of submit button. On submission (Mouse Event: onPress) would launch a

> new

> > window with a new HTML document that would contain the quiz. Only the

> first

> > screen of the quiz has to contain the user name.  I'm looking for the

> easiest

> > way to do this, so if the form needs to be created in Flash within the

> same

> > overall movie as the quiz, then that is acceptable. We are running

> ColdFusion

> > over here, however that is not my area of expertise so I'd like to stay

> away

> > from having to pass the form value to the database and then back to the

> Flash

> > movie. Thanks again!

>

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