How to control a Flash movie from Javascript and use Javascript from Flash movies

mariusvw — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:24:10 +0000

Personally I dislike the usage of Flash in my websites but our clients request a lot that they want animations. Now it happens that they want the animation to act upon an action to a non-flash object. This can be difficult if you have no idea how to do that. If you read below, you should have no problem with getting this job done

Control your Flash Movie from Javascript:

// Play movie
document.getElementById('myFlashMovie').Play();
// Stop movie
document.getElementById('myFlashMovie').StopPlay();
// Rewind movie to beginning
document.getElementById('myFlashMovie').Rewind();
// Goto next frame of MovieClip
document.getElementById('myFlashMovie').TGetProperty(nameOfTargetMovieClip, propertyIndex);
// Goto next frame of TimeLine
document.getElementById('myFlashMovie').GotoFrame(frameNum);
// Zoom in or out the flash movie
document.getElementById('myFlashMovie').Zoom(relative percentage);
// Set variable and make it available via ActionScript
document.getElementById('myFlashMovie').SetVariable(variableName, variableValue);
// Get variable for usage in JavaScript
var myVariable = document.getElementById('myFlashMovie').GetVariable(variableName);

To control Javascript functions you can call it like this:

ActionScript 1/2

getURL("javascript:name_of_your_function();");

ActionScript 3 direct call

var url:String = "javascript:name_of_your_function();";
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
try {
  navigateToURL(request);
} catch (e:Error) {
  trace("Error occurred!");
}

ActionScript 3 event mouse click call

movieClipName.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, callLink);
function callLink:void {
  var url:String = "javascript:name_of_your_function();";
  var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
  try {
    navigateToURL(request);
  } catch (e:Error) {
    trace("Error occurred!");
  }
}

For some more information about these methods, please check out the Adobe website.

I hope this helps you out with getting that Flash Movie behave like you want it to

How to output UTF-8 data from PHP for Flash

mariusvw — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:36:42 +0000

Encode the output right for Flash to handle UTF-8 characters:

$data = 'Søm∑ spëcíål çhåråctèrs.';
echo urlencode(htmlspecialchars(serialize($data)));

How to make a Flash movie redirect with ActionScript3 from your timeline

mariusvw — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:42:33 +0000

You can use the following code to simply redirect from a key in your timeline.

I used this to redirect after my preloader finished.

var url:String = "home.html";
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
try {
    navigateToURL(request, "_self");
} catch (e:Error) {
    trace("Error occurred!");
}

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