Flash 8 passing vars

Hello,
First I want to say that I am not a flash/action script expert and my question could be stupid, but I cannot launch my site without solve this problem.
I have a flash movie that loads external swf in the window component using the function:

var my_win:MovieClip = mx.managers.PopUpManager.createPopUp(_root, Window, false, {title:caption, contentPath:contentpath, closeButton:true});

All is working well, but now I have a problem - I need to pass variables to the external movie (contentPath is the path to the swf). I googled fot the answer and I found this:

example.swf?var=alabala&var2=sometext

but this works only when I use it in HTML page. I found the documentation for FlashVar, but it works only in HTML page.

Can anyone help me with some solution, code, docs ...

Best regards!

Not sure if it'll work in the Popup Manager, but I tested it using "loadMovie()"

In the "child" movie i.e the popup, you should just be able to go ->

_parent.myVariableName

I've attached 2 .fla files which show it working through trace() in a movie loaded into the main movie. The same sort of thing should work in a popup I'm guessing.

Cheers,
Niggle

Yep, I do it :)
_global.var1;
_global.var2;

Ye, ye, I know - Sometimes the big problem have very simple solution :)

10x to niggles

Edit: Now I have another problem :(
The content of some movieclips is larger than the windows and I need to dynamically attach scrollbar to the window, but I only found how to attach scroll bar to text field.

Best regards!

Hello,
I have a problem ... again. I am opening the main swf in an ASP .NET page, but the child movies wont open. Everything is working well in flash only, but when I do it through my page. I changed the paths from absolute to relative, but it didn't work :(

Flash takes it's path from the HTML/ASP page it's embedded in - which can cause issues once on an actual server as opposed to a folder on your hard drive.

Not sure why the absolute links don't work - they should. Try using a full URL including the http:// and see if that fixes it.

What I do is set a variable for the path so I can test it locally and on the server-

pathToFiles = "/some-file-path/";

getURL(pathToFiles + "myMovie.swf");

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When testing on your hard-drive, set pathToFile = ""; so it doesn't append anything, when testing on the actual server, put in the whole address.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Nigel

Ok, I did it, but it's not working well. In the main movie I have declared some _global variables, but the movie that I am loading is not able to read them. But when I start it from Flash (Test movie) it's working ?!