Of course, when it doubt, do a quick search of the feeble internet, then hit up the web squeeze... thats the obvious part, which brings me to now.

How does one go about doing this? Is there a very simple way one can shoot a variable into flash and has the flash file reload? I am sure I could just put the flash file in its own file and load it via ajax, but I'm wondering if there is a simpler way to do that...

For a while now I've been using SWFObject when inserting flash files to web page. It allows me to do this:

I have also used swfObject. It works very well.

ahh yes, thanks for your responses guys. I apologise for not explaining this better... I use swfobject as well. It rocks. And I am aware of how to send variables to it on loading the flash file... what I am wondering though is how to actually send variables to the flash file once its already loaded.

For example, say you have a flash file that does something depending those flashvars you send it... what about changing the flashvars on the fly? I could refresh the file using some ajax technique and have it reload with new flashvars... but what about just kind of sending new variables into the file?

This post has been edited by cosmicbdog: Jul 13 2008, 12:08 AM

That's a bit trickier. I'm not sure if you can do it without reloading the whole flash with some ajax method like you already mentioned. Maybe someone else knows better.