Variables and flash?

1

Got a website. Has some music. I want to make it so that if you turn the music off, it says off on subsequent pages.

The site is HTML, with flash where needed.

http://www.aladdin-trading.com/dev/

Can I use flash to write a variable to ASP, and then have ASP pass it back to Flash?

2

In short, yes.

There are a number of methods you can use to synchronize your flash movie to a back-end, including Flash Remoting, XML and send/load vars. Here’s some example code (from the O’Reilly “Flash Cookbook” - buy it!) for loading vars from a server-side cgi script.



// You must first create the LoadVars object.
myLoadVars = new LoadVars(  );

// Then load the variable from the server-side script. This example 
// uses the loadVarsScript.cgi script, which is assumed to be in 
// the /cgi-bin directory on the same server. To test this code, 
// change the URL to point to an actual script on your server.
myLoadVars.load("/cgi-bin/loadVarsScript.cgi");

myLoadVars.onLoad = function (success) {
  // If the data loads, display the variable in a 
  // text field named output_txt on  _root.
  if (success) {
    _root.output_txt.text = this.myVar;
  }
};

Instead of CGI, those vars could be loaded from an ASP page as well…