Pass variables to hotspots

[cortezz]

May be that i'm not thinking clearly, but is there any way to pass variables to the hotspots. Lets say i have a hotspot called "spot.swf" and i'm using the same hotspot 20 times in my panorama. I want that every hotspot is able to read specific xml-file.

<spot id="spot1" url="spot.swf?spotNumber=1"> doesnt' seem to work. Of course I can do "spot1.swf" "spot2.swf" separately but that seems so complicated.

Am I missing something here?

Any help would be appreciated.

[sonicoliver]

yes yes,

to be able to call functions within swf hotspots would also be great.

[koma]

Well, I just tried something like <spot id="spot1" url="spot.swf?spotNumber=1"> and it worked… In AS u can query the string with ease: trace(spotNumber);

[dougeefresh]

I just tried passing a variable using this method and it doesn't seem to work. swf movie doesn't get loaded when I attach a variable using "?"

[koma]

well, it works here.
what I have in the pano-xml:

<spot url="panos/hotspots/mod_info.swf?XMLpath=../modules/info/Solothurn/Studer.xml" />

and in the swf spot, with AS2:
XMLdaten.load([XMLpath]);

with that I can load an xml (here Studer.xml) into that spot

[zleifr]

If you want to pass something to a .swf hotspot via the query string, then take a look at flvplayer.swf. It has the code for exactly this.

Zephyr