Chapter 9. Loading
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
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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