At 7:23 PM +0300 7/22/01, Pekka Buttler wrote:
>Hi and thanks for the tip.
>Sadly I could not make it work, and have to admit that although I havve been
>programming CD-ROM's for what seems like ages, all this web-stuff is 'new'
>to me. Is there anything else I need than a default HTML for the SW?
>
>On a sidenote, I had originally thought to use
>externalevent/evalScript&Jscript, just to find out that it don't work on all
>browsers. (Ridiculous oversight if you ask me.)
fyi: Browser bug - not MACR's.
>Is it so untypical to use SW content in a DHTML environment, that noone has
>expressed the need for tools enabling REAL browser interaction???
>
>BTW, what you recommend is essentially the same as Christian Wach
>recommended earlier (something which works)... I just find it incredible
>that the methods for this do not exist in Lingo. Shockwave has existed since
>D5, and out of some incomprehensible reason you still can't do jack S...
>... ...
>
>Pekka
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>> Behalf Of nick
>> Sent: 23. heinäkuuta 2001 1:29
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Retrieving HTML parameters from URL
>>
>>
>> Pekka,
>>
>> I've been looking for the same thing. Here is what I found in the manual
>> (although i havent tried it yet) :
>>
>> if externalParamName ("swURLString") = "swURLString" then
>> myVariable = externalParamValue ("swURLString")
>> end if
>>
>> Check out those functions in the help/manual - i think they will
>> do what you
>> want.
>>
>> best wishes
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Pekka Buttler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 8:36 AM
>> Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Retrieving HTML parameters from URL
>>
>>
>> > Umm.
>> >
>> > According to the documentation
>> > <QUOTE>
>> > Syntax member(whichCastMember).URL
>> >
>> > the URL of member whichCastMember
>> >
>> > Description Cast member property; specifies the URL for Shockwave Audio
>> > (SWA) and Flash movie cast members.
>> >
>> > For Flash movie members, this property is synonymous with the pathName
>> > member property.
>> > The URL property can be tested and set. For SWA members, it can be set
>> only
>> > when the SWA streaming cast member is stopped.
>> >
>> > Example This statement makes a file on an Internet server the
>> URL for SWA
>> > cast member Benny Goodman:
>> >
>> > on mouseDown
>> > member("Benny Goodman").URL =
>> > "http://audio.macromedia.com/samples/classic.swa";
>> > end
>> > </QUOTE>
>> > The Url property is only applicable for SWA and Flash members, whereas I
> > > need the URL, which is in the Browser's adress box when the SW game is
> > being
> > > loaded.
> > > Something like location.search in Javascript.
> > >
> > > Pekka
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>> > > Behalf Of Colin Holgate
>> > > Sent: 20. heinakuuta 2001 18:08
>> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > > Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Retrieving HTML parameters from URL
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > >I have the situation where on starting a shockwave game, the
>> > > engine gives me
>> > > >a parameter in the URL like
>> > > >http://xxx/numbers1.htm?lmsid=3
>> > > >
>> > > >Now I need to be able to get the data from the URL, especially the
>> > > >characters which come after the question mark.
>> > > >I'd hate having to use Javascript for it as I have more than 100
>> > > shockwave
>> > > >games and very little experience with javascript.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > It should be easy:
>> > >
>> > > on getquerystuff theurl
>> > > set id = the itemdelimiter --remember this to be polite
>> > > set the itemdelimiter = "?"
>> > > delete item 1 of theurl
>> > > set the itemdelimiter = id --reset it again to what it was
>> > > return theurl
>> > > end
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
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