How do you pass [parameters] to URL.swf without causing syntax
problems? You create a URL encoded (escaped) parameterized query, such as:
“URL.swf?param1=value¶m2=value”
Just make sure you add that first question mark, the rest is ignored bu the
EMBED command.
How do you copy them from wherever it is you got them from (hidden form
fields, originating URL, etc?) That’s a good question. Unfortunately you must rely on simple
Javascripting to dynamically generate the “EMBED” code as in Figure 1. This
means that the code displayed in Fig 1 is pushed to the browser at run time
(page-display time) using the document.writeln (); function.
If you chose to pass information via the URL line, here is the code to
intercept that parameter:
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