Does anybody know if this is possible?
I am trying to create a flash movie that will show / preview what I am typing into a field in a normal HTML form. The call to update the flash movie would most likely be attached to an onKeyUp event.
Any advice or tutorials would be great
cheers!
Decbrad
Assuming you're using actionscript 3....
Check this out
You can also check this link out (its for Flex 3 though... AS3 should be similar for flash I believe)... I've used ExternalInterface in my Flex projects before.
As far as I'm aware, Flashplayer only listens to key events when it has focus (which it wouldn't have if you're typing into an HTML form. I'm not aware of any way to inject events into Flash with javascript.
Is there a particular reason why you can't use a text area in the actual flash movie itself?
My advise would be to grab your favorite event utility for JavaScript and then pair it with ExternalInterface. That way, you can add a callback to the EI in Flash which would mean that you could do something like this:
ExternalInterface.addCallback( "keyboardClicked", dispatcherFunc );
function dispatcherFunc():void
{
dispatchEvent( new Event( "javaScriptKeyClick" ) );
}
document.getElementById( "mySwf" ).keyboadClicked();
Hey guys, thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I haven't touched flash since version 4 so to say that i'm rusty... is an understatement!
The reason I haven't built the text area in the actual flash movie is because the system is 95% complete now and there's a lot of smarts on the server side. The flash preview is more or less the icing, as they say! Bit surprised there's not more of a hook into Flash.
Thanks again!
Dec
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Action script 3.0
swipe left/down/right/up gotoAndStop/play (x)?? Someone got a skeleton code of this? I know how to make it in Air for ios/android, but not on regular 3.0. Thanks.
Since you're asking in general - you're not showing specific code:
Use MouseEvents in place of TouchEvents - mousedown in place of a touchBegin for example. mouseX for the position, mouseMove event for swipe code, etc.
Unless you're handling gestures, it should be pretty easy to swap.
I'm trying to make a google maps style interface for a design project. I've got the drag/drop and zoom functions working, but I also want to make it react to gestures on a trackpad (macbook). I assumed 'listening' to the event.delta of a MouseEvent would do the trick, but somehow it's not working. So what's wrong with my code?
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL, onMouseWheelEvent);
function onMouseWheelEvent(event:MouseEvent):void {
tafelOrigineel_mc.y += event.delta;
}
I have loaded the flash MouseEvents earlier in the document, so that shouldn't be the problem. After I got this working, I will try to use it on the x-axis too. Is that possible with the MOUSE_WHEEL eventlistener?
Thx in advance
It is a long time problem regarding flash player on MacOS.
MOUSE_WHEEL event won't dispatch on MacOS. Though there are some workarounds involving the use of JavaScript to detect the use of the wheel (over the entire flash content), if it isn't a issue, try checking one of those.
There is a list in this blog post:
http://www.impossibilities.com/v4/2009/03/06/flash-mousewheel-implementations-for-mac-os-x/
I have general text in CDATA in my xml which is pulling in content into Flash. This is working well and I am able to add images this way too. What I need though is to wrap that image in an tag which, when clicked on will fire off a function in my Actionscript 2 to launch a video.
Could someone please tell me how I would go about this? Is there a better way than the way I am thinking right now?
Thanks.
I recently did this in AS3 but I found the AS2 way.
Tested it:
function myFunc(arg:String):Void
{
trace ("You clicked me!Argument was "+arg);
}
myTextField.htmlText ='Click Me!';
You just use a href that is set to asfunction with a function name and something to pass along.
See:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary073.html
Just to give credit I found the initial code at: blog.activepoison.com/?p=25.
Suppose I have a flash application; let's say a chess game. The user is playing against a computer opponent. After every move, I want the flash application to add the move's "description" into the HTML of the page.
Does flash have this ability?
Are there any common round-about ways of doing this? Maybe the flash app updates a database, and some AJAX on the page frequently checks the database and adds content when appropriate.
Are there any examples on the web of this type of functionality?
From ActionScript, you can use ExternalInterface to call Javascript functions in the client browser, so yes, this is possible.
I see in my ActionScript 3.0 Bible, chapter 36 "Interfacing with JavaScript" that you can use flash.external.ExternalInterface to "both call JavaScript functions from Flash and to call ActionScript functions from JavaScript".
Therefore, you can change any DOM element from a JavaScript that you activate from Flash.
Your ActionScript code can access javascript methods that update the page's DOM.
You can access Javascript methods using the ExternalInterface class. more details at:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/external/ExternalInterface.html
I'm downporting some ActionScript 3 to ActionScript 2 (some ad agencies sadly still refuse to embrace the future) and I've run into the issue that in ActionScript 2 ExternalInterface has no objectID property, as it does in ActionScript 3.
The code I'm working on calls a lot of JavaScript, and some of that code requires the script to know the ID of the Flash object/embed (for example to find the position on the page, and to resize the object/embed).
Is there a simple workaround to get hold of the object/embed ID in ActionScript 2?
I have managed to write some JavaScript code that basically searches all object and embed nodes on the page until it finds one with a special method (set with ExternalInterface.addCallback) and that way managed to get the ID into the ActionScript environment, but it feels like a hacky and unsafe method to rely on. Surely there is a simpler way?
Edit: I don't have control over the code that embeds the SWF, so passing in the ID doesn't work.
Is this what you looking for?
Simple actionscript 2 class that find it owns flash html object id.
http://sourceblogg.se/lang/en/mina-projekt/isitme-get-flash-html-object-id-within-flash/
What about passing the ID to the SWF via FlashVars? You should know the ID when you embed it, so it should be easy enough to add it as one of the FlashVars variables passed to Flash. Then store that somewhere your code that calls ExternalInterface can get at it.
Try the Flash Javascript Integration kit http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flashjavascript/ .
As far as I'm aware, the ExternalInterface class in AS3 was a formalisation of this AS2 solution.