Access flashvars in preloader in flex?

Question

I want to access some flashvars in my preloader to a Flex application. How is this possible?

Regards Adlertz

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '09 at 10:15

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Try the loaderInfo.parameters attribute of the preloader.

answered Mar 24 '09 at 10:15

David Hanak

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 24 '09 at 20:23

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From the preloader, you should be able to access the flashvars indirectly through the SystemManager as follows:

var systemManager:SystemManager = parent.parent as SystemManager;
var params:Object = LoaderInfo(systemManager.loaderInfo).parameters;

answered Mar 24 '09 at 20:23

Raul Agrait

I think the loaderInfo attribute of all sprites in the display tree point to the same LoaderInfo instance, so there is no need to dig up the system manager. But I could be wrong. – David Hanak Mar 25 '09 at 09:16

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 25 '09 at 10:17

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I have accessed the flashvars using loaderinfo from the root of my preloader-sprite.

var flashvars:Object = root.loaderInfo.parameters;

The tricky part was to know when the root wasn't null. But I found a blogpost:

answered Mar 25 '09 at 10:17

root.loaderInfo is the same as loaderInfo, when root is not null, see my comment to Raul's answer. – David Hanak Mar 25 '09 at 10:32

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