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Anonymous
July 20, 2007
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Flash Form and Navigation Button Issue (DoFSCommand)

  • July 20, 2007
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Hi,

In short, How can I get a <cfinput type="button" to send out a javascript command to change the current page location.

I have this code:
When I click on the HTML type button, the relocation happens as expected.
When I click on the equivalent cfform button, it does not.

I'm guessing it is something in the syntax of the onClick event, but I have to say I'm lost. Flash MX documentation says this should work right (?)

Cheers,


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Correct answer
Replying to my own posts again...

the answer came in the Flex 1.5 documents for Actionscript 3 (I assume this is what CF 8 has behind the scenes).
The doc says:
"In ActionScript 3.0, the functionality of the External API is provided by the ExternalInterface class."...
"If you need to use the old fscommand() function--for example, to maintain compatibility with older applications or to interact with a third-party SWF container application or the stand-alone Flash Player--it is still available as a package-level function in the flash.system package."

However I'd like to make the point that no-where anywhere in the CF documentation is even one tiny example of the use of action script coding to enhance the basic functionality of CFForm. To much to ask ?

Oh yes, and one other thing, it seems as though the getURL actionscript command does what I needed to do in this case.

Cheers,

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Alain_Levy-s3SmK8
Participant
August 9, 2007
Hi,

In relation to communication issues between Flash and Javascript: I am trying to get Javascript to talk to my Flash form, but I can't get it to work.
I would like at least to be able to change the value of a hidden field in my form, or even better to execute an actionscript function, from Javascript.
I believe the answer lies somewhere around the ExternalInterface.addCallback function, but I just can't get it to work.

I am trying to do this because I have a flash form with a tab navigator and the showing tab is bound to a hidden field.So far so good...I am now trying to use the new CF8 CFmenu functionality to control which tab shows. That's why I need it!

Any guidance appreciated! Thanks a lot!

Alain
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Anonymous
August 9, 2007
Hi Alain,

Not sure if I can help directly however I found the following.
a) biggest issue was deciding which version of actionscript documentation to read. I decided upon Flex Actionscript version 1.5 and this seems to hold out, even with CF8. Not happy with Adobe's lack of any kind of example for actionscripting within CFFORM/Flash which would have helped just to get me started. I found not even one tiny example in all the docs I read.
b) I never got javascript talking to the flash form or vice-versa. I went for purely actionscript within the flash form and it seems to work.
c) I can see why you need it to work, and if you find out please let me know, I will be fascinated as I had in mind to do some things like that for my own App (e.g. I suspect will sooner or later not be able to avoid this issue myself.).

Cheers and best of luck..

BP.
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Anonymous
Correct answer
July 25, 2007
Replying to my own posts again...

the answer came in the Flex 1.5 documents for Actionscript 3 (I assume this is what CF 8 has behind the scenes).
The doc says:
"In ActionScript 3.0, the functionality of the External API is provided by the ExternalInterface class."...
"If you need to use the old fscommand() function--for example, to maintain compatibility with older applications or to interact with a third-party SWF container application or the stand-alone Flash Player--it is still available as a package-level function in the flash.system package."

However I'd like to make the point that no-where anywhere in the CF documentation is even one tiny example of the use of action script coding to enhance the basic functionality of CFForm. To much to ask ?

Oh yes, and one other thing, it seems as though the getURL actionscript command does what I needed to do in this case.

Cheers,

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