how to pass variables to a loaded movieclip?

[ousia]

Hi there,

I have the following two animations (please, remove the .txt extension [they are SWF files]):

1. A loader (pr-loader.swf.txt.
2. A presentation (pr-presentation.swf.txt.

I may use flashvars with the presentation, such as in:

ruffle -P slide=3 pr-presentation.swf

This works fine. Although slides in this particular presentation are zero-based (and values for the slide variable are not).

I would like to invoke the same flashvar with the loader (ruffle -P slide=3 pr-loader.swf) to have it passed to the presentation.

The (stripped down) AS2 code to load the presentation in the loader reads:

if (slide != null && slide > 1) {
    the_presentation = "./pr-presentation.swf?slide=slide";
} else {
    the_presentation = "./pr-presentation.swf";
}

first_loading = new Object();

first_loading.onMouseDown = function () {
  load_swf = new MovieClipLoader();

  load_swf.loadClip(the_presentation, placeholder);

  listen_loading = new Object();
};

Mouse.addListener(first_loading);

I’m afraid I don’t know how to pass the value from the loader to the loaded movieclip (since this doesn’t work at all).

Would any kind soul know how to do that in AS2?

Many thanks for your help.

[colin-i]

Maybe something like this?

createEmptyMovieClip('load_swf',getNextHighestDepth());
load_swf.slide=slide;
load_swf.loadMovie('./pr-presentation.swf');

[ousia]

I’m afraid I’m not being able to work.

Many thanks for your help, @colin-i.