Trying to call an external function

Report · Aug 02, 2018

Hello,

I have been trying to figure out how to call an external function on my Animate project.

this is the code I am using, but it seems like ExternalInterface. is not supported...

this.closeCTA.addEventListener("click", windowClose);

function windowClose(){

ExternalInterface.call("hideAnimation");

}

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks!

Report · Aug 02, 2018

your embedding html has to have compatible code.

test with this:

<head>

<title>yourswf</title>

function hideAnimation() {

alert('called');

}

</script>

</head>

<body>

</body>

type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="yourswf.swf" width="550" height="400">

</a>

</html>

Report · Aug 02, 2018

Are you working in AS3 or HTML5 Canvas?

Report · Aug 02, 2018

Doing this on HTML Canvas

Report · Aug 02, 2018

Okay, there is no ExternalInterface in Canvas mode because there is no plugin to externally interface with. Published Canvas documents run as bare-metal JavaScript directly in the browser, just like all the other JavaScript programs on the web.

So if a JS function is defined outside of Animate in the global scope, to call it you just... call it:

hideAnimation();

Report · Aug 02, 2018

Thank you for the explanation.

Will give this a go.

Trying to call an external function

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