AS3.0 External Interface: Pass variables to flash using javascript

Report · Sep 05, 2010

Hello all,

I am looking for a simple and straightfoward example of how I can pass the value of a variable into flash using javascript.

Specifically, I'd like to use javascript to pass the filename of an external video file that I would like to load into my flash movie.

I'd also like to call a function in the SWF that plays the movie once the filename as been passed to the flash movie.

External Inferface looks like the way to go.

I've found a few decent AS2.0 examples, but converting them to AS3.0 has proven difficult and many of the examples are much too complex for what I am trying to do.

If you have any code samples or tutorials showing the HTML/Javascript and the associated actionscript I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks!

Tim

Report · Sep 06, 2010

if you create a swf (eiTest.swf) and html:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>eiTest</title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
        <script language="JavaScript">

you can use:

import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
ExternalInterface.addCallback("jsF", asF);

function asF(fileS:String):void{
trace(fileS);
}

Report · Sep 07, 2010

Thank you kglad! With a little tweaking we got external interface working for us. Thank you for your helpful and timely response!

Report · Sep 07, 2010

you're welcome.

Report · Dec 23, 2011

Hello Sir,

Nice tutorials.

but did not wwork in Chrome...

Please help soon as possible.

-G

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