[SWFObject] Ampersands and addVariable Parameters

[Geoff Stearns]

so then you can either a) display it in an html text field, or b)  
just unescape the string.

in actionscript you can unescape it with unencode() i think.



On Nov 1, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Jim Blakeslee wrote:

> Would you believe, it displays it exactly as written:
> "Tony%20%26%20Joe%27s%20Seafood%20Place" and does not decode it.
>
> And, I don't see anything in the actionscript related to the  
> handling of
> the string that looks unusual to me...
>
> Geoff Stearns wrote:
>> interesting... are you doing any other processing on the string after
>> it enters the swf?
>>
>> maybe you could just set the string manually inside your flash  
>> movie as
>>
>> Tony%20%26%20Joe%27s%20Seafood%20Place
>>
>> and then see how your app displays it?
>>
>>
>> On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Jim Blakeslee wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am doing:
>>>
>>> so.addVariable("mapitlabel",escape("Tony & Joe's Seafood Place"));
>>>
>>> but the Flash is still seeing the string as just "Tony"
>>>
>>> see page here:
>>> http://www.georgetowndc.com/mapit.php?id=1102
>>>
>>>
>>> Geoff Stearns wrote:
>>>
>>>> you have to escape ant special chars:
>>>>
>>>> so.addVariable("url", escape("yoururlstring"));
>>>>
>>>> OR, if you are using double-byte chars (like most asian languages)
>>>> you
>>>> can use encodeURIComponent() instead of encode.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 6, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Jose R. Rodriguez (JRVisuals,LLC)  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>>     Still searching the archives on this one but...
>>>>>
>>>>>     I'm having problems passing a parameter in via addVariable.  
>>>>> The
>>>>> value ( a URL containing name/value pairs) is being truncated  
>>>>> at the
>>>>> first ampersand.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>>     Many thanks,
>>>>>                             - JR
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Jose R. Rodriguez : Founder / JRVisuals, LLC : *www.JRVisuals.com
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