Question

I am passing parameters to flex application as below but it shows empty always .

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="100%" height="100%" id="metaplayer">
                <param name="movie" value="multicastplayer.swf" />
                <param name="quality" value="high" />
                <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
                <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
                <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
                    <param name="group" value="8155" />
                    <param name="password" value="8155" />
                    <param name="type" value="2" />

                    <param name="streamname" value="8155" />
</object>

Accessing it from flex shows empty either of this ways. WriteText is just my function that shows variables in a textbox.

writeText(mx.core.Application.application.parameters.group);
                for (var i:String in FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.parameters) {
                    writeText( i + ":" + FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.parameters[i] + "\n");
                }

Answer 1

For me it works fine with this syntax (passing the arguments through the flasVars” param name):

<param name="flashVars" value="locale=${language}&localeFallback=en_US" />

And then in my flex:

 var parameters:Object = Application(FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication).parameters;

 if (parameters.locale) {
     locale = parameters.locale;
 }

You can find the official documentation about that on the official web site: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash/kb/pass-variables-swfs-flashvars.html

BTW, you can/should use swfObject to generate this piece of HTML code. It handles properly passing the parameters to the SWF.

HIH