Randy Troppmann

The best method I have found for passing external variables to a Flash object on startup is FlashVars (see link to technote below). For example, I built a graphing application that takes it’s data as xml input from a .NET web service. I made the URL of the web service a variable that is passed into Flash when it is loaded. That way I can reuse the graphing application for different data sets. This also opens the door for dynamically delivering graphs since the HTML page can be built on-the-fly.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flashvars.htm