Calling an SWF with variables

Question

Is there a way to call an swf with variables, like we do
dynamic web pages? Like this example:
somedomain.com/some.swf?var1=whatever&var2=somethingelse
I am trying to make a starting point for about 30 swfs and
wanted a single logo starter for them all without having to include
it in all the rest of the files. I wanted to call it, with 2
variables, one just plain text to be displayed at the bottom right
above a button, and the other was the filename of the next swf to
load. I am doing this in a learning environment and the logo intro
was to be used for all the lessons.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hallo everyone,
Since my initial posting, I have made good progress and have managed to split out my scripts so that one master-script calls the others passing various parameters. That's a great help.
However, I have now come up against a problem which I am finding difficult to solve:
In my main script I need to calculate the dates for each calling of the sub-scripts. I have experimented and have come up with several variations of date formatting. For example:
TO_DATE('01.' || TO_CHAR(ADD_MONTHS(SYSDATE,-1), 'MM.YYYY'))
I have tested the date formatting in a little test table to prove that the process runs correctly (i.e. valid dates are produced) and now I would like to move this syntax to my SQL*PLUS scripts to pass the dates as parameters to my other scripts.
First I tried:
PARAMETER xStartDate = TO_DATE('01.' || TO_CHAR(ADD_MONTHS(SYSDATE,-1), 'MM.YYYY'))
&xStartDate
... but this didn't work as the processor interpreted the literal string.
Next I tried:
VARIABLE xStartDate1 DATE
BEGIN
:xStartDate1:=TO_DATE('01.' || TO_CHAR(ADD_MONTHS(SYSDATE,-1), 'MM.YYYY'))
END
:xStartDate
... but here too the literal value was passed.
Can anyone help me with this? I need to set and change parameters/variables as my SQL*PLUS script is executed and then send these to other scripts.
Or maybe I should first write the values (in this case Start- and End- Dates) to a table and then read the table and use the retrieved values to pass as arguments to the other scripts? Is this possible? Can it be done easily?
Or maybe SQL*PLUS isn't designed for this (i.e. dynamic variables) and I should instead be using PL/SQL?
I hope this isn't another false alarm (I don't believe it is) and am sure that you guys will be able to point me in the right direction.
Many thanks,
Alan Searle.
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