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I'd forget about FS Commands, .... think along the lines of using a scripting language (like php) to set a variable with that link...and then using loadVariables in actionscript.

Remember HTML can't talk to anything...it's a formatting tool, nothing more. FS Commands use javascript as an avenue to pass values between the 2 environments, since it's client-side scripting, it's a little iffy with browser support.

It's all very easy and you'll have it done is no time.

Actually, I've never done it, but [THEORETICAL GUESSING AND VAST SPECULATIONS FOLLOW] I'd be something like <PARAM name="somethingorother" value="<?=$phpvar?>">. No idea though... Tony?

Thanks for the link, I'll give it a look see.

yeah, I had a huge headache with this a while back.  Thankfully flash MX is better at it than previous incarnations.  here's the most important thing to know:

any variables that are appended to the query string to the ACTUAL FLASH MOVIE can get read in by flash no problem.

ex: "www.yoursitehere.com/flashmovie.swf?email=myname@mysite.com&name=myname"

you get it?  the hard part comes with a flash file wrapped in an HTML page.  If the values you want to send to flash are always the same you can just add the variables to the end of the movie call in your embed tags. as in :

<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="flashmovie.swf?email=yourname@yoursite.com">

However, it seems like this is not what you are trying to do.  Have you played with the named anchor feature of flash MX (are you even using MX?)  I haven't tried it so mileage may vary, but as I undestand the way macromedia SUPPOSEDLY set up the anchor feature, you should be able to have regular <a href> tags with a URL like "thispage.html#frameinflash" which would then keep you at the same HTML page while moving the flash movie to the frame called "frameinflash" (when you name the frame, there is a checkbox to make it a named anchor.

Then again, if you're not using MX, this is all moot.  But I hope it helped anyway.

lateralis

sure!

the first one will only work for what you're talking about if you make a function in flash that runs onEnterFrame.  an onEnterFrame function executes on everyt frame of the movie, at the given frame rate.  YOu could maybe set a variable to be checked and when it changes, move to a different frame:

mymovieclip.onEnterFrame(dothis);

function dothis() {
mymovieclip.gotoAndPlay(framenumpassedfromhtml);
}

(not sure how much flash and actionscript you know so forgive me if I'm talking down)  the above should work provided you have a main movie clip within which all your other stuff exists.  this is probably overkill for what you need to do.

I would definitely experiment with the named anchors, that will probably be your best bet.

lateralis