<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">well, the code i gave would just pass in the hash value as is...<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>so you would have a var called _root.hash that would be equal to "#/something/somethingelse/whateverelse"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- you don't have to format it that way, and if you want to you can use name/value pairs instead, and then use the getQueryParam() method build into swfobject to pull out individual values. an example of that would look like:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>your url is yourpage.html#foo=bar&foo2=bar2</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>then your js/swfobject code would look like:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>so.addVariable("foo", getQueryParamValue("foo"));</DIV><DIV>so.addVariable("foo2", getQueryParamValue("foo2"));</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>which would then give you 2 vars on the root of your movie, one called "foo" with a value of "bar" and one called "foo2" with a value of "bar2"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>once you have the vars into your swf, it's up to you what you do with them... you treat them just like you would any other variable.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 31, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Ade Olufeko wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">thanks for responding Geoff.. hmmm .. <BR>so maybe something.. <BR><BR>something like <BR>//holder is the instance for the container<BR>//artists will be the anchor tag<BR>so.addVariable("<SPAN style="font-weight: bold;"> hash</SPAN>", holder, artists); ? <BR><BR>then<BR>// root.hash var <BR><BR>what the var is supposed to be, would it be the fuction the buttons are using? <BR>sorry....i am a little lost..<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 10/31/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Geoff Stearns</B> <<A href="mailto:geoff@deconcept.com">geoff@deconcept.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <DIV style="">sure, you just need to pass in the hash to the flash movie when it loads, which is really easy:<DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>so.addVariable("hash", document.location.hash);</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>then take the _root.hash var when the movie starts and use that to load the appropriate swf. </DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV><SPAN class="e" id="q_10ea07978559c208_1"><DIV>On Oct 31, 2006, at 5:18 PM, Ade Olufeko wrote:</DIV><BR></SPAN></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="e" id="q_10ea07978559c208_3"> hello peeps I was just reading a post about anchors from over here <A href="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2004/04/named-anchors" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.noscope.com/journal/2004/04/named-anchors </A><BR>I was wondering if something like that could be applied to flash movies with containers loading other movies...? <SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <BR><BR><BR></SPAN> <DIV style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">a good example... if you go to this url <A href="http://www.2advanced.com/#casestudies/byproject" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.2advanced.com/#casestudies/byproject </A> it will skip all the intros and go directly to the that section of the flash movie. <BR>sometimes its a little more</FONT><SPAN><FONT face="Arial" size="2"> complex when the flash movie uses a container to load other swfs.. e.g jumi.swf, about.swf, buy.swf jumi swf contains a holder where all the other swfs are supposed to be loaded into. i cant figure out how to deeplink that. 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