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How to obtain URL that Flash movie is embedded on?

Hello everyone, today I'm trying to get the URL where my Flash movie is sitting on. I found a similar question here, which was answered with a link to Flash's LoaderInfo method, but I'm not sure I'm using it correctly as the textField in my test movie here: http://leongaban.com/stackoverflow/getUrl/ does not display the URL Updated! WO...

Anyone else unable to listen to uncaughtErrorEvent when loaded by another swf?

When I try to access the uncaughtErrorEvents dispatcher when loaded directly, everything works well. But when I try the same code when loaded by another swf I get a reference error. protected function onAddedToStage(e:Event):void { trace("Flash version: " + Capabilities.version); try { loaderInfo.uncaughtErrorEvents.addEve...

AS3 - How do you receive parameters in a swf from a GET request?

I tried using var params: Object = ((this.stage.loaderInfo) as LoaderInfo).parameters; to get the parameters, but it returns an Object with no properties. That LoaderInfo will give me the correct URL without the parameters though if I use LoaderInfo.url. I'm using the request: http://localhost/foo.swf?start=foobar. params.hasOwnProperty...