ActionScript Scraps

Getting values from the URL string in AS3 isn’t very complicated. First you need to set up your html to pass these into the SWF using a javascript function:
 
<script language="javascript">
function gup(name){
name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)";
var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
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Here’s a very handy javascript function to grab FlashVars from the URL. ‘GUP’ Get URL Parameters can sit in your html or in an external js file.

function gup(name){
name = name.replace(/[\[]/,”\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,”\\\]”);
var regexS = “[\\?&]“+name+”=([^&#]*)”;
var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
var [...]