please show all your script

and are you talking about exporting for a given player version, or are you
talking about using a different player control for the same SWF file ..
you're not too clear about what you mean.
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Jeckyl

I noticed a difference between Flash player 7 and Flash player 8, how both
handle variables that are initialized from a movie (URL) parameter. This causes
a real problem and I assume it;s a bug in either player 8 or (less likely)
player 7.

This is the situation (the problem occurs with local content):
In a local HTML page there is a reference to a movie, with parameters (eg
"display.swf?contentFolder=pictures")
in the action script of the first frame of the movie "display.sfw" the
variable "contentFolder" exists and is checked for a trailing slash. If it has
not a trailing slash (as is in the example above) it is added. So content
Folder now has the string value "pictures/"

Now the difference beteen player 7 and 8:
In Player 7 the variable is used in the following frames and still has the
value "pictures/"
In Player 8 the variable has the original value of "pictures",
so in my case the content I'm trying to load can't be found (since i.e.
picturespicture1.jpg does not exist, where pictures/pictures1.jpg does exist)

All scripting of the variable found place in the script of the frame and
context of the _root.
This is a real problem, since in my case the movie is burned on a cd and
distributed.

Any suggestions or comments would be appriciated.

Hi,
Reading your post I decided to make a step-by-step guide to reproduce the
effect. But it seems it can be demonstrated but not reproduced. The source,swf
and html file I place in a zip at = " + contentFolder);
stop();

in frame 2 you should expect the value of contentFolder to be
="value-set-by-action-script", but in player 8 it's not. it's the original
value.

Why it can't be reproduced is this strange situation: In the original movie
there is a text field, that has nothing to do with the variable contentFolder.
If you remove this textbox player 8 performs as expected. If you place a new
one with exact the same properties the problem does *not* occur.
If you copy the textbox from the original movie to a newly build movie you
*can* produce the problem.
So it seems a very peculiar issue.

The problem we found in several movies, all original build in Flash 6, so
maybe that's the source of the problems.
As I wrote before our problem is that the movies are distrbuted on cd-rom, so
we can't fix them ...

Thanx for your effort responding to my post!
Arjan

I also placed the html file directly on the web:
http://arjan.vanderleden.com/fp8test/demo_param_vars.html
It shows the problem is not limited to local files.