Flash Pro 8 and Asp probs

Hi all,


I'm creating a website that needs to read some urls from a database into flash, and so I decideded to use asp and access 2007.

At the moment everything works when I do dummy runs:

>Asp gets the information form the database and prints out to a window
>Flash takes the urls from a text file and adds it to some buttons.


This would all be good and well if thats what I needed for my app to work, but the problem is that the movie should be reading the urls from the window which the asp file outputs.

I've used





Which goes to the url in arg 1 to read the info into the load object (arg2). Arg 3 is just the type of loading ( to post variables to another place or get them from a place).

There are no errors and I tested this function using:




Which after a few debugging runs printed out success so I know it connects to the asp file.

However...the urls didnt go to my buttons so I converted the loading object into a string in flash (using countryInfo.tostring()) so that I could see what was being sent back, and I tested the flash file with a text file then the asp file to make sure.

I have different outputs for the text file (which works) to the web file (which doesnt)...

The load object from the text file looks like this:

ausUrl=null&onLoad=%5Btype%20Function%5D

and the web one looks like this:

%0D%0A%0D%0AausUrl=null%20%20%0D%0A%20%20&onLoad=%5Btype%20Function%5D


I think the problem is that the flash file cant read the variable from the web load object (underlined). This is because the flash looks for a matching variable name, separating the name from the value using '=' and separating each variable from another using '&'.

In the text load object its easy cos the variables are formatted correctly and so flash evaluates a match, but in the web load object has all of this %0D%0A%0D%0A noise which I dont know how to omit...

If I cant get rid of that then flash assumes its all part of the variable name on the left side of the '=' and that on the right ( before the '&') its the value.

So if Im looking for a match for ausUrl=null I wont get it because its like this:

%0D%0A%0D%0AausUrl=null%20%20%0D%0A%20%20

how does one get rid of the noise??


Any help much appreciated as my boss is breathing down my neck

Hi to anyone who was reading i figured out what was wrong:



When you send a variable to flash from asp you need to use the Response.Write method.

The problem was that flash must read data from an external file in a certain format

I was getting lots of %%% because I needed to put an '&' infront of the variable that I sent from the asp file like this :

1) response.write "&variable=" & var1

but I wrote it in the asp file like this:

2) response.write "variable=" & var1


Doing this (1) gets rid of all of the %%% business because flash reads the '&' as an indicator to the next variable.

Hope that was useful for anyone having the same probs