July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
2h 35m
English
LOADING EXTERNAL ASSETS has provided Flash with completely dynamic functionality, allowing XML and database connectivity, and image and movie display. This chapter covers the differences between ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3 in how to load external variables, how to trigger a URL to a Web site, and how to load external assets and track their progress with ActionScript.
Loading external variables in ActionScript is made possible with the flashvars attribute and/or tag, depending on the implementation. Flashvars offers a direct method for passing name-value pairs to a Flash movie through embed and object tags. While the process of passing variables to a Flash movie is virtually the same in both versions ...
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