One Response to “Access flashvars from a loaded swf”

1. SwfBuilder says:

   August 24, 2009 at 11:48 pm

   An import point: This will not work unless the loaded swf has already been added to the display list.

   Consider this code in your main swf, where code in frame one of loaded.swf tries to access a FlashVar:

   var loader:Loader = new Loader();
   loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
   loader.load(new URLRequest(“loaded.swf”));

   function completeHandler(event:Event):void
   {
   addChild(loader); // here’s where your swf gets added to the display list
   // Handle other init tasks
   }

   This will not work, because the code in frame one of loaded.swf will have already executed when completeHandler() is called. To get this to work, you have to move the addChild(loader) line:

   var loader:Loader = new Loader();
   addChild(loader);
   loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
   loader.load(new URLRequest(“loaded.swf”));

   function completeHandler(event:Event):void
   {
   // Handle other init tasks
   }