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access to URL string from Shockwave From: Christian Wach <chris@flowmotion.demon.co.uk> Subject: access to URL string from Shockwave To: DIRECT-L@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Hi Abram, >After some cursory research, it looks as though the only way for a shockwave >movie to see the URL string of the page that it is embeded within is to pass >the URL in as an external parameter. Am I missing an easier way? I'm in digest mode, so apologies if you already have a solution to your problem. You are essentially correct that SW cannot find its own location... it needs to be passed to it by javascript. I use this script (or variations on it) to pass all sorts of info to shockwave movies that can only be found using javascript, including the width and height of the page that a movie sits in (see Al Hospers thread on this a couple of weeks back: 'stage size in browser'). <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript"> <!-- Hide // Get location string nav_loc = String(document.location.href); // Write Object and Embed Tag document.write('<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000" CODEBASE="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/director/sw.cab# version=7,0,2,0" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240"><PARAM NAME="src" VALUE="your.dcr"><PARAM NAME="SWLIVECONNECT" VALUE="0"><PARAM NAME="sw1" value="' + nav_loc + '"><EMBED src="your.dcr" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" width="320" height="240" sw1="' + nav_loc + '"><\/EMBED><\/OBJECT>'); // End Hide --> </SCRIPT> btw, beware line breaks. hth, Christian