A Flash Template Variable

Gareth,

Here’s a scenario. Let’s assume we had 10 sequences in a flash movie.

The first sequence is only for use on the home page. [*startframe*] uses @EVAL to determine if it’s on the home page or not.

Sequences 2-10 are little animation sequences ... flying words and fades and whatnot. They should play, but only if selected from a multi-select list: [*included-sequences*]. This TV would have a multi-select input options set up for it’s display widget.

I suppose the call would be include something along the lines of myflash.swf?start=[*startframe*]&seq=[*included-sequences*]

The flash would need to do the following:
If the value to be passed in as startframe===true, then start on frame 1, else, exclude frame 1. Next, it would then play the sequences passed in [*included-sequences*].

I have never done one bit of ActionScript, so I’m totally clued out how to accomplish this. Is it difficult?

It’s been a while since I’ve done any flash work, and most of that was fairly simple. I’ve never done any PHP/Flash integration so I wouldn’t really know here to begin either. Try taking a look at actionscript.org. The following post may provide some inspiration:

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=60131

Gareth.

Just thought I’d share since it seems somewhat relevant : here’s an interesting discussion I found earlier today of some limitations and simple methods of getting data into Flash...

http://oddhammer.com/tutorials/bigStringIn/