Comments on: Actionscript Javascript Communication | ExternalInterface call and addCallback Tutorial

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:14:36 +0000

Is it as simple to set a cue point in a video and pass a ? variable?

I have built many flash players, but honestly I like Jeoring’s player but I would like to load different content into my side column from a database like ads that are relational to the content of the video.

I am currently looking into AMPHP but saw this post. Very informative stuff.

Can you shoot me an email if you respond please?

By: ABU-SOUZEY

ABU-SOUZEY — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:07:51 +0000

hi
first sorry for my bad language
i am hamada frpm jordan i tried to write a combination with javascript and flash 8
but it doesn’t work only if it was published to web server
why i can’t do it at home ???
please reply

By: motu

motu — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:34:17 +0000

Hi, is there a fairly easy way to get the text sent from flash
to simply send the text as a javascript call to the web page?

I’m fairly green & it would help with my learning.
Thanks
motu

By: Evan Mullins

Evan Mullins — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:40:49 +0000

@Eric - I would think so, as long as IE can still address the flash content with the getElementById(). Let us know if it does work!

@YVR - I admit, I’m confused. Not sure what you mean. You want the function coming from flash to send text back to flash? That just seems redundant…

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:57:57 +0000

Do you know if this also works with AC_RunActiveContent.js. I tried using swfobject and it blows my design apart.

thanks

By: YVR

YVR — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:39:48 +0000

Hi Evan….This works perfectly as expected…but need a help on one step further down.
I just added another function in the javascript function which looks like this (hope this comments will allow me to paste JS syntax…)

function recieveTextFromFlash(Txt) {
document.getElementById(’htmlText’).value = Txt;
DisplaySettingsPage();
}

In my Javascript page..
DisplaySettingsPage {
ajaxpage(’products.asp’ ,’centerarea’)
}

Now when I click the Flash button it perfectly display the products.asp (which just does a select recordset from a mysql table) in the correct “centerarea” div..
Now my question is..how do I modify the code so that the resultset is not displayed in DIV but rather in a nice formated textbox in FLASH (instead of centerarea DIV) ?
-Let me know if I have confused you.
-V

By: YVR

YVR — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:08:51 +0000

Wonderful…Thank you Evan for your quick reply…this helps me a lot..let me try tonight..

By: Evan Mullins

Evan Mullins — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:55:06 +0000

@YVR - I fixed the embed codes for IE so the javascript can now “find” the flash element on the page correctly. Nothing in the flash source changed- only the HTML. I didn’t include that in the zip file, but it is in the html page here ActionscriptJavascriptCommunication2.html, just view source. My apologies for the confusion

By: YVR

YVR — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:47:05 +0000

Evan - You said you fixed the codecs for that IE problem….did oyu update the zip file with that change ?

By: Robert Green

Robert Green — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:28:32 +0000

Object doesn’t support this property or method.

I am able to communicate from Flash to JavaScript, NO PROBLEM. However, the inverse is not true. From JavaScript to Flash, I get the above error. There is no explanation for this all code is correct. All are set, the tag is there also.

Can anyone help?