flash + javascript + ajaxcall 1

[patrickdrd]

Hi everyone!

My colleague has written a flash to be acting like a tab (4 options for the user),
and we would like to be able to know when a user presses a specific "tab", calling then a function "AjaxCall" (the function itself is included in the original aspx page) to pass the pressed tab index to an aspx page and then query a database,
can this be accomplished?

Will the function call work from flash (the function resides on the aspx page, where flash object resides too)?

Tried to simulate an example with Javascript from Flash (show an alert) but didn't work!
Does anyone know why?

Thanks in advance!

 

[kennethkawamoto]

> Tried to simulate an example with Javascript from Flash (show an alert) but didn't work!
> Does anyone know why?

If you're testing it locally then perhaps it's a local security issue.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[BluesmanUK]

are you using getURL or fscommand?

 

[patrickdrd]

getURL!

Should I use the other one?

 

[BluesmanUK]

getURL should work fine :-S
getURL("javascript:alert('foo');");

Could be worth giving fscommand a go tho. also you need to make sure to set the swfliveconnect parameter to true in your object and embed tags.

however check this out:

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flashjavascript/

 

[patrickdrd]

Thanks, I'll try that!

One more question:

does flash 'know' the included in the html (actually aspx) javascript file code?

Will I have any problems calling a function that's inside a .js file?

 

[BluesmanUK]

actually just done a test, and did a bit of googling and it seems flash 8 has different ideas:

http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=0922A

 

[BluesmanUK]

there should be no problem if the javascript is inside a js file, because once the browser has rendered the html code, external files are incorporated (even though you dont see the external js code when u view source).