AS3 - Passing values to child swf

[jrayjr]

Good morning, I've ran into a problem where I need to pass a value from my main swf to a external swf that I load. I've looked everywhere with no luck. Hope to find someone here that may know. What I am trying to do is pass the value of textColor to my Weather.swf. The textColor is a dynamic value that the user selects from the main swf. I'm still quite new to how AS3 handles different things. =(

[Frame1]
 
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.events.Event;
 
var textColor:uint = 0x00FF00;
 
//Creates empty movie clip 
var Wmc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
 
// Load Weather
var WeatherLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var WeatherRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("Weather.swf");
WeatherLoader.load(WeatherRequest);
 
// MC Populated
Wmc.addChild(WeatherLoader);
 
[Frame2]
 
// Format Wmc
Wmc.x = 562;
Wmc.y = 62.5;
Wmc.width = 900;
Wmc.height = 550;
Wmc.name = "WMC_Loader";
addChild(Wmc); // Display the Wmc
 
 

Any information would be great, thanks.

-John

[bnashenas1984]

Hi
I'm not sure if this example can help you or not.

Lets say we have 2 swf files

Number 1: main.swf
Number 2: loadedFile.swf

first you load loadedFile.swf .and add it to main.swf and then set the instance name to "loadedFileName"

Now we want to pass a variable called "Something" to loadedFile.swf

in main.swf we write

loadedFileName.Something = "here comes the value of your variable";
 

and now if you write the code below you will see the value of your variable in the output box

trace(this.Something);
 

Good luck