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Flash > Loading a variable
Example showing how to load a variable into a Flash movie
Intro:

  This Flash button loads its target URL from the variable clickTag in the url for the swf file.

The Button:



The Flash embedding code:

  <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
  codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"
  WIDTH=200
  HEIGHT=50>

  <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="tmo/loadurl.swf?clickTag=http://www.dansmith.info">
  <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
  <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>

  <EMBED src="tmo/loadurl.swf?clickTag=http://www.dansmith.info"
  quality=high
  bgcolor=#FFFFFF
  WIDTH=200
  HEIGHT=50
  TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
  PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?
  P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">

  </EMBED>

  </OBJECT>

The Button Action:

  on (release) {
      getURL (clickTag, "_blank", "GET");
  }

The FLA File:

Download the Flash fla file here