Using FlashVars with Flex 3 - apache-flex

Question

I'm trying to pass parameters from HTML-land to Flex-3 Flash-land, and can't seem to get it to work. Here's what I've got (basically the default template, modified with FlashVars):
<noscript>
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
id="${application}" width="${width}" height="${height}"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab">
<param name="movie" value="${swf}.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="${bgcolor}" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="flashVars" value="userID=foo&assignmentID=1"/>
<embed src="${swf}.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="${bgcolor}"
width="${width}" height="${height}" name="${application}" align="middle"
play="true"
loop="false"
quality="high"
allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"
flashVars="userID=foo&assignmentID=1">
</embed>
</object>
</noscript>
And here's the ActionScript (called after the app's creationComplete event is fired):
function initApp() : void
{
// default params
userID = Application.application.parameters.userID;
assignmentID = Application.application.parameters.assignmentID;
if (userID == null || assignmentID == null)
{
Alert.show("I didn't get any params!", "Error");
}
}
Anybody know what's going wrong? I've tried several permutations of this with no luck. (Firefox 3, OS-X, Flash Player 9 FWIW)
Thanks!

Answer 1

I think you want to be setting query params after the .swf stuff too. Try
<embed src="${swf}.swf?userID=foo" quality="high" bgcolor="${bgcolor}"

Answer 2

Try "FlashVars" instead of "flashVars".