Grabbing FlashVars from the embedding HTML template in Flex 4 (SWFObject Edition)

By Peter deHaan On March 4, 2009 · 7 Comments

In a previous entry, “Grabbing FlashVars from the embedding HTML template”, we saw how you could access FlashVars in your Flex application by passing a name/value pair string to the AC_FL_RunContent() method and <object>/<embed> tags from your HTML template.

The following example shows how you can pass FlashVars from your HTML template to your [...]

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Using HTTPService tag to send/receive variables to a server-side script

By Peter deHaan On August 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example demonstrates a very simple usage of sending parameters from Flex to a server-side script (written in ColdFusion) and then displaying the server response in our Flex application. The server-side script is a simple echo/”Hello world” type script, but it accepts URL or FORM variables, so you can send using the GET or [...]

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Dynamically creating ActionScript cue points from FlashVars loaded using the HTTPService tag

By Peter deHaan On August 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

In a previous post, “Dynamically creating ActionScript cue points from FlashVars received from the HTML container”, we looked at how to create ActionScript cue points based on variables passed in to our Flex application from the HTML template’s “FlashVars” parameter. In this post we look at a similar approach, although using the <mx:HTTPService /> [...]

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Dynamically creating ActionScript cue points from FlashVars received from the HTML container

By Peter deHaan On August 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

In a previous post, “Creating ActionScript cue points with the VideoDisplay controlEdit”, reader Florian asks how you can set cue points dynamically from FlashVars.

Well, here’s one method of passing a single name/value pair from the HTML template into our Flex application and having Flex parse the string and dynamically add the ActionScript cue [...]

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Grabbing FlashVars from the embedding HTML template

By Peter deHaan On August 7, 2007 · 16 Comments

What if you built a nice, custom FLV player in Flex and wanted to embed the player in an HTML page and have it star playing a specific video? How could you easily do that without tweaking the MXML each time with the path to the FLV or calling a server-side script to somehow determine [...]

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