Passing parameters to swf without ExternalInterface

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I'm using a simple audio player in Flex 3 that plays a given mp3 from a given url.

My swf is intended to be embeded in Facebook walls.

<meta property="og:video" 
      content="http://url/of/my/Player.swf?file=url_of_my_file" />

The player works fine, as I'm getting my parameters from the url:

http://url/of/my/Player.swf?file=url_of_my_file

using

var _queryStringFromUrl:String = 
              ExternalInterface.call("window.location.search.substring", 1);

My problem is that when the swf is embedded in the facebook wall, the ExternalInterface is disabled, so I can't get my url variables.

  • Is there an alternative for getting a parameter inside my swf player?

  • How does youtue handle that in the following url?

    <meta property="og:video" 
  content="http://www.youtube.com/v/dQw4w9WgXcQ?version=3&amp;autohide=1">

Please note that the swf is not embedded in a html page.

EDIT:

It seems that youtube compiles a new swf for every video, with the parameters inside. Can someone confirm?

Thank you

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apache-flexflex3flash

1 Answers

1
votes

Maybe you can try to use flashvars for this problem? It initialized and passed on swf init. Parse URL-params by JS and add them to flashvars.