MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 LANGUAGE, Reference

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Global Functions 73
Parameters
url :String
- An absolute or relative URL where the variables are located. If the SWF file
issuing this call is running in a web browser,
url
must be in the same domain as the SWF file;
for details, see the Description section.
target :Object
- The target path to a movie clip that receives the loaded variables.
method :String
[optional] - Specifies an HTTP method for sending variables. The parameter
must be the string
GET
or
POST
. If there are no variables to be sent, omit this parameter. The
GET
method appends the variables to the end of the URL and is used for small numbers of
variables. The
POST
method sends the variables in a separate HTTP header and is used for
long strings of variables.
Example
The following example loads information from a text file called params.txt into the
target_mc
movie clip that is created using
createEmptyMovieClip()
. The
setInterval()
function is used to check the loading progress. The script checks for a variable in the
params.txt file named
done
.
this.createEmptyMovieClip("target_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
loadVariables("params.txt", target_mc);
function checkParamsLoaded() {
if (target_mc.done == undefined) {
trace("not yet.");
} else {
trace("finished loading. killing interval.");
trace("-------------");
for (i in target_mc) {
trace(i+": "+target_mc[i]);
}
trace("-------------");
clearInterval(param_interval);
}
}
var param_interval:Number = setInterval(checkParamsLoaded, 100);
The external file,
params.txt
, includes the following text:
var1="hello"&var2="goodbye"&done="done"
See also
loadVariablesNum function
,
loadMovie function
,
loadMovieNum function
,
getURL
function
,
loadMovie (MovieClip.loadMovie method)
,
loadVariables
(MovieClip.loadVariables method)
,
load (LoadVars.load method)