flash actionscript: Ok, I have searched this forum and a few others trying to find a way to get
data into flash from a form. By this I don't mean creating a new page that
loads after I click a button with the form data appanded to the end of the
header. I am wondering if I can just grab the data that is in a form on the
same page a swf is located. I will try to explain this the best I can.

I have an html page that contains a form

<form name="input_form">
<input type="text" name="textVar" value="something">
</form>

but also on that page is a swf file. I want to be able to take the "textVar"
value and send it into flash where I can then use it. I have looked through
using loadVars class, loadMovie, getURL("","","GET") methods and I can't figure
out how I can get it to work. If you are wondering why I want to do this, I
know flash can't browse the system because of security reasons, but an html
form can so I want to try to use javascript to press the browse button to get
that to pop up then once the user has the file they want I want flash to grab
the string of the location to create a clean interface but not actually upload
the file. I saw an example of this done online but it didn't go into how to
get that form data back into flash.

If you want to press the user to use Flash 8 player, then you can have Flash
browse for files with user at the helm.

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Ok, I have searched this forum and a few others trying to find a way to get
data into flash from a form. By this I don't mean creating a new page that
loads after I click a button with the form data appanded to the end of the
header. I am wondering if I can just grab the data that is in a form on the
same page a swf is located. I will try to explain this the best I can.

I have an html page that contains a form

<form name="input_form">
<input type="text" name="textVar" value="something">
</form>

but also on that page is a swf file. I want to be able to take the
"textVar"
value and send it into flash where I can then use it. I have looked through
using loadVars class, loadMovie, getURL("","","GET") methods and I can't
figure
out how I can get it to work. If you are wondering why I want to do this, I
know flash can't browse the system because of security reasons, but an html
form can so I want to try to use javascript to press the browse button to
get
that to pop up then once the user has the file they want I want flash to
grab
the string of the location to create a clean interface but not actually
upload
the file. I saw an example of this done online but it didn't go into how to
get that form data back into flash.