One way you can get around not being able to pass a parameter in is to add a "querystring" to your swf src in the embed tag / param movie in your object tag and then look at the _url property for the movie and strip off the query part.
Working With XML Adobe Flash / Tips and Tricks
Sometimes you need to pass a flash file information. Perhaps you're making a flash-based photo gallery or an mp3 player. Maybe you want to use flash to parse server information. Whatever you need to do, it may make the most sense to use XML to pass your data to flash. Using XML is good because it's easy to parse as flash has built-in XML tools. In order to use an XML file, you need flash to do 2 things: read it and parse it. Here's an example of the code you'd need to read in an XML file (called info.xml) and parse it.
Working with XML Adobe Flash / Backend Integration
Sometimes you need to pass a flash file information. Perhaps you're making a flash-based photo gallery or an mp3 player. Maybe you want to use flash to parse server information.
Preloading External Flash Movies Flash tutorial Adobe Flash / Preloaders
This preloader tutorial shows you how to load an external Flash file into another Flash file with a preloader. This gives you the opportunity to break your Flash Movie into several more manageable parts rather than having one very large Flash file. It also means that the user need only wait for that section of the Movie that they wish to view to preload rather than waiting for a much larger file to load.
Creation of a pendulum with dynamic parameters in Flash Adobe Flash / Math and Physics
This is a tutorial demonstrating how to use math to simulate the movement of a pendulum, until it stops, taking advantage of two elementary mathematical functions, which is "sine" and "power", with the possibility to dynamically vary the parameters that regulate the movement of the pendulum.
Integrating Video in a Flash Movie Adobe Flash / Video
Want to integrate video in your Flash movie? You have two choices. You can embed the video in your Flash document, or keep progressively download it into a SWF file using from a FLV (Flash Video) file. In this tutorial you'll learn to use the Media Playback Component to display a FLV file in a Flash movie.
Controlling sound using Actionscript Adobe Flash / Sound
Audio integration into a Flash file always adds "glamour" to the Flash file. It makes it highly presentable and enhances the user experience.
We will see how to do the following using Flash:
1. Import audio into flash
2. Adding audio to frames
3. Adding audio to buttons
4. Looping audio
5. Updating/Editing the added audio
6. Sharing the audio file across multiple files/projects
Preload External Flash Movies using Components Flash tutorial Adobe Flash / Preloaders
In this preloader tutorial you will learn how to load an external Flash file into another Flash Movie using the Loader and Progress Bar Components. The use of Components make this is very simple and quick build. You can then break up your Flash project into several Flash movies rather than having one very large Flash file. It also means that the user only needs to wait for that section of the site that they wish to view.
Basics of Using Text in Flash Adobe Flash / Text Effects
This Tutorial explains the basics of Text in Flash. In Flash there are 3 types of Textboxes - Static, Input & Dynamic. Static text are used for titles, labels, or other text content that appears in a flash document by default. Input text options are used for user interactivity like obtaining username or other information in a Flash form. The third type of text is a Dynamic text, that are used to display text that changes dynamically at runtime.
Controlling flash from html Adobe Flash / Dynamic Content
Say we have an external text file that is dynamically loaded into flash. Now say we want to have a link from this text file, which loads up external movies or we simply want to controll our flash from an external text that we have loaded; if this is our situation then we can use "asfunction" in our text file to communicate a general function with flash.
Loading Text file into flash Adobe Flash / ActionScript
This is a very basic tutorial, that will show you how to
have a Flash movie 'import' and display text from a
text file that you create. This can be very useful if
you want to update text in a movie, but don't want to
edit the .fla file!.