[SWFObject] loading Vars in the source tag.

[dayvid jones]

Thanks Geoff, I have soooooooo many pages to recode and many of them  
load vars in the swf path.   You bring up a very good point, but to  
save time, I'll just keep loading the vars in the .swf path, most of  
the content never changes.

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www.sparktop.org, there's fun games and stuff ; )

Thanks again.




On Apr 25, 2006, at 7:55 PM, Geoff Stearns wrote:

> yes, you can do it that way if you like, but i recommend doing it
> using the addVariable.
>
> addVariable uses FlashVars, which means it won't affect the caching
> of your swf, and there is no restriction on the length of vars you
> can pass into the swf (or at least it makes the limit *much* higher
> than the browser limit.
>
> if those vars change at all, every time they change, the browser will
> make a new request to your server, negating speed increase your users
> might get from caching of the swf file.
>
>
>
> On Apr 25, 2006, at 7:35 PM, dayvid jones wrote:
>
>> Hi Geoff, thanks so much for creating SWFObject, you've really help
>> out a lot of people.
>>
>> I have a question.  Using SWFObject, can I still load vars in the swf
>> string?
>>
>> So if I have a .swf string like this:
>> movie.swf?variable1=value1&variable2=value2&variable3=value3
>>
>> Do I have to write it like this:
>>
>> <script type="text/javascript">
>>     var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "200", "100", "7",
>> "#336699");
>>     so.addVariable("variable1", "value1");
>>     so.addVariable("variable2", "value2");
>>     so.addVariable("variable3", "value3");
>>     so.write("flashcontent");
>> </script>
>>
>>
>>
>> Or can I write it like this too:
>>
>> <script type="text/javascript">
>>     var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf?
>> variable1=value1&variable2=value2&variable3=value3", "mymovie",
>> "200", "100", "7", "#336699");
>>     so.write("flashcontent");
>> </script>
>>
>>
>> I've tried it the second way and it appears to be working, but I just
>> want to make sure.  I'm going to be replacing a lot of embed/object
>> tags in the next couple of weeks and I want to make sure I'm doing it
>> correctly.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
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