Nicely done.

I’m happy that you left the comment. Your information is quite useful to others that might read this article, especially to newbies. So thanks again.

Thanks.

I also usually use notation without the root property, but for those that are just getting into AS3 and are coming from AS2, I thought it would be a good example, so they see and understand where the FlashVars parameters would be found. I guess I should have explained it a little better: for display objects, root is he topmost object in the display list – so they can always be sure that they have a reference to that topmost object. The loaderInfo object is defined only for the root display object – that’s what I wanted to emphasize.

Thank you for your comment. Much appreciated.

I will be honest, never had to reference the root in any AS3 code I have written, and in terms of the flashVars / parameters, this.loaderInfo.parameters or loaderInfo.parameters is all that’s required here.

e.g

var _params:Object;

if ( this.loaderInfo.parameters.length != null ) {
_params = this.loaderInfo.parameters;
} else {
// run alt code to init
}

Place the above code inside your document class constructor or frame 1 scripting window.

If you want to trace out your results use this;

for ( var sItem:String in _params ) {
trace( “Name : ” + sItem + “, Value : ” + _params[ sItem ] );
}

No root reference needed! Not a display object in sight!

Hope that helps.

Happy that it helped you out ;).