MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 LANGUAGE Reference page 700

For more information, see the following:
Chapter 17, "Understanding Security," in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Flash
The Flash Player 8 Security white paper at http://www.macromedia.com/go/fp8_security
The Flash Player 8 Security-Related API white paper at http://www.macromedia.com/go/
fp8_security_apis
For Flash Player 7 and later websites can permit cross-domain access to a resource via a cross-
domain policy file. In SWF files of any version running in Flash Player 7 and later,
be in exactly the same domain. For example, a SWF file at www.someDomain.com can load
data only from sources that are also at www.someDomain.com.
In SWF files that are running in a version of the player earlier than Flash Player 7,
be in the same superdomain as the SWF file that is issuing this call. A superdomain is derived
by removing the left-most component of a file's URL. For example, a SWF file at
www.someDomain.com can load data from sources at store.someDomain.com because both
files are in the same superdomain of someDomain.com.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6 - Behavior changed in Flash Player 7.
Parameters
- A string; the URL from which to download the variables. If the SWF file
url:String
issuing this call is running in a web browser,
Returns
- if no parameter (null) is passed;
Boolean false
handler to check the success of loaded data.
Example
The following code defines an
the Flash application from a server-side PHP script, and then loads the data in passvars.php.
var my_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
my_lv.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if (success) {
trace(this.toString());
} else {
trace("Error loading/parsing LoadVars.");
}
};
my_lv.load("http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/params.txt");
700 ActionScript classes
must be in the same domain as the SWF file.
url
true
handler function that signals when data is returned to
onLoad
otherwise. Use the
onLoad()
must
url
must
url
event