Passing Parms from Hyperlink to Flash.swf

[Mtnclimbers]

I want to use Hyperlink to invoke a .swf and pass parms to it.
I am somewhat knowledge in HTML and Flash but I quess not enough to figure this out. Instead of Hyperlink, I could use flash buttons but still not do not know how to pass the parms to .swf.

[tg]

you could pass it thru the querystring, or use the flashVars paremeter in your html object/embed tags.

[Mtnclimbers]

How do I use hyperlink and object/embed tags?

This invoked the .swf file but I am not sure how to get the embed/tags included.

<a href="slide_show.swf">Photos
Sept 1 - 7, 2004</a>


The following is what I what to invoke and pass to slide_show.swf


<script language="JavaScript">
document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"');
document.write(' codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"');
document.write(' WIDTH="800" HEIGHT="657"');
document.write(' id="slideshow" ALIGN="center">');
document.write(' <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="slide_show.swf">');
document.write(' <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=best>');
document.write(' <PARAM NAME=salign VALUE=LT>');
document.write(' <PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=noscale>');
document.write(' <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>');
document.write(' <PARAM NAME=FlashVars VALUE="border=0x000000&delay=2&images=images/P2004245.jpg,images/P2004246.jpg,images/P2004247.jpg,images/P2004248.jpg,images/P2004249.jpg">');
document.write(' <EMBED src="slideshow.swf" quality=best scale=noscale salign=LT bgcolor=#FFFFFF ALIGN="center" NAME="slide_show"');
document.write(' WIDTH="800" HEIGHT="657"');
document.write(' FlashVars="border=0x000000&delay=2&images=images/P2004245.jpg,images/P2004246.jpg,images/P2004247.jpg,images/P2004248.jpg,images/P2004249.jpg"');
document.write(' TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">');
document.write(' </EMBED></OBJECT>');
document.write(' ');
</script>

[tg]

when you publish flash as html it will create a html page with <object> and <embed> tags. these are what embed the flash into your html page. with object you can use the <param> tag to add the flashvars element.

so you would have <object ......><param name="flashvars" value="myVariabeName=myvariablevalue">
</object>
<embed ..... flashvars="myvariablename=myvariablevalue"...>

something like that.... cant quite remember right now.
do a search on macromedias site for 'flashvars'.

[osu9400]

Where did you find the slideshow flash util you are talking about? I would like to try it also.