I don’t know a lot about ActionScript, but I figure it would be something like this:
var s:String = "search phrase";
getURL("http://example.com", "_self", "GET");
Basically, you just call a link to your site and pass it the s=search parameter to perform a search. There is no specific “file” you need to hit, just the main URL of the site is what you are sending the data to, in the “s” parameter.
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rudme
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Thanks Otto,
the var s:String = "search phrase";
part IS the problem!!
What i am trying to say is that Flash 4 is so old it did not yet have what they called “action script” in the later versions of Flash.
In other words i only have preset options to chose from.
One sector is called “Expression” the other “string literal”, and there is an “Expression Editor” (inside which i find no option to add something like a variation “s”
Inside the strings editor i have several sections:
General Operators, Numeric Operators, String Operators (mainly about greater than etc. option to add a string target)
Logical Operations. Than also General, Numeric and String Functions, Properties, Global Properties, Multibyte String Functions- sorry, i lined these up because i never used any of them, no clue what they mean or how to implement….
So i just wonder if this ominous “s” couldn’t be attached to the URL string somehow??
Maybe
Get URL (“useroo.tk”, window=”_self”, vars=GET s) oh, nope, the Vars options are only Don’t send, send using Get or send using Post, eieiei, my brain starts to rotate in circles….
I know just that calling the home page alone does not produce any search results …
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rudme
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and just tried..
What WP suggests here http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Search_Page#Using_the_page.php
so i could link to this new search page as in
Get URL ("http://www.useroo.tk/search/", window="_self", vars=GET)
but – you guessed it – it just jumps to that page without fetching the actual search term, eieiei
Yeah, no idea man. There isn’t even documentation remaining on the internet for flash code that old.
I recommend rewriting it or ditching it. Sorry.
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rudme
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Ditching a cutie like this:
http://www.useroo.tk/flasheroo.html
i worked this out completely in Flash, long before there where touch screens and tablets, just with the mouse.
But anyway, i put on second best for my site so i can at least still use it as my home page – while visitors get the new main page, there’s always a work around everything ….
