# Passing Variables to a flash movie, without embed tag

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variables-to-a-flash-movie-without-embed-tag/229761>\
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**Created:** [June 19, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variables-to-a-flash-movie-without-embed-tag/229761 "2007-06-19T23:55:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![flammable\_liqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@flammable\_liqui](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flammable_liqui)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-variables-to-a-flash-movie-without-embed-tag/229761/1 "2007-06-19T23:55:22Z")

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Can someone help me? I would like to pass a variable to a flash movie. Back in the day using the embed tag you could pass a variable to a movie easily (relativily) eg:

\<OBJECT classid=“clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000”  
codebase="“[http://macromedia.com/cabs/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0](http://macromedia.com/cabs/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0)"”  
WIDTH=“250” HEIGHT=“250” id=“flaMovie1” ALIGN=“CENTER”\>  
\<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=“flaMovie1.swf”\>  
\<PARAM NAME=**[COLOR=#cc0000]FlashVars[/COLOR]** VALUE=**[COLOR=#cc0000]“imageFilename=image.jpg”[/COLOR]**\>  
\<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high\>  
\<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF\>  
\<embed src=“flaMovie1.swf” **[COLOR=#cc0000]FlashVars[/COLOR]**=[COLOR=#cc0000] **“imageFilename=image.jpg”** [/COLOR]  
quality=“high” bgcolor="#FFFFFF" WIDTH=“600” HEIGHT=“800”  
NAME=“flaMovie1” ALIGN TYPE=“application/x-shockwave-flash”  
PLUGINSPAGE=“[http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer](http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer)”\>  
\</OBJECT\>

Unfortuantly i can’t use that any more because IE will block it as “Dangerous Active X content — Danger Will Robinson DANGER!”

Fortunatly Kirupa, and his wonderfull web site were able to lend a hand ([http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/flash\_fix.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/flash_fix.htm))

producing the following code:

\<script type=“text/javascript” src=“flashobject.js”\>\</script\>  
\<div id=“flashcontent” style=“width: 800px; height: 600px”\>\</div\>  
\<script type=“text/javascript”\>  
var fo = new FlashObject("/flash/ImageHolder.swf", “animationName”, “800”, “600”, “8”, “#FFFFFF”);  
fo.addParam(“allowScriptAccess”, “sameDomain”);  
fo.addParam(“quality”, “high”);  
fo.addParam(“scale”, “noscale”);  
fo.addParam(“loop”, “false”);  
fo.write(“flashcontent”);  
\</script\>

How in the name of chunky cheese am i meant to pass a variable to a move clip in that? can anyone help me?