Embedded SWF in PDF, "form" text transfer to said SWF

Thanks in advance for your help.
{ also posted in the Flash Professional forum }
How to have a SWF (embedded in PDF) load a form text field: "value" ?
Objective: given;
~ SWF is embedded in a PDF
~ form field in PDF = "name1"
Coding task;
how to script the SWF's text field so that it can use the PDF's form text field
while embeded in the PDF (that has a form field / "value").
many thanks
Dale
Fremont, CA

ActionScript in the SWF has direct access to the Acrobat JavaScript model through the ExternalInterface object.
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