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22 April 2005 ActionScript (or, my brain hurts)Everything you read about passing variables from HTML/JavaScript to Flash tells you to use FlashVars. This enables you to include variables within the object/embed tags which will then be auto-populated into your SWF when it loads. All very clever. Except I was doing this, and my movie was crashing every single time. Turns out that even if you have a variable which just contains 123456, Flash interprets it as a string, not a number. Aargh. Apparently ActionScript MX can do strong typing, which would fix this ('var xcentre:Number=xbase). But the Ming ActionScript compiler doesn't support this. Aargh again. I eventually hit on a solution: 'var xcentre=Math.floor(xbase)'. Yeah, I know. But it works. Incidentally, this is a beautifully reliable way of embedding SWFs into your page, and knocks Flash Satay into the proverbial hatted cock. Comments | |
