In one of my recent projects, I had the requirement to open a browser window from within Flex on click of a button. Thats when I came across this Externalinterface call. Here is how I did it.
private function openWindow():void
{
ExternalInterface.call(“w_ = function () { window.win = window
.open(‘http://yahoo.com’,'TestPage’,'width=700,height=500′); }”);
}
Dont forget to do this though :-
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
Might be useful to some of you trying to achieve the same in your project.
#1 by radek on October 31, 2007 - 12:28 pm
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Thats actually nice trick. It will be much more useful for communicationg with JavaScript directly – you can do browser programming from inside Flex.
You can for example parse location, place divs, add or remove DOM nodes.
I think you just forgot to mention the most important part is this:
…call(“w_ = function() {…
as it triggers JS function execution. And you can’t place var before w_ at it will not work at all.
#2 by admin on October 31, 2007 - 2:57 pm
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yes I agree to that. A whole lot of things can be done in terms of communicating with javascript and browser. placing a var before w_ will make it not work because then it will be treated as a flex variable? is that what you wanted to say?
#3 by radek on October 31, 2007 - 5:40 pm
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No – I have no idea why it won’t work with var but it doesn’t
#4 by admin on October 31, 2007 - 5:47 pm
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nice
#5 by Amy on November 1, 2007 - 8:37 pm
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I assume that FABridge will be popular once it’s outta beta status? This is something you would use with it, rather than ExternalInterface?
#6 by admin on November 1, 2007 - 8:45 pm
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I havent got my hands dirty yet with the FABridge but from the looks of it, it looks like an interesting library. Thanks for letting me know, I am gonna try some of the examples out there.
#7 by Amy on November 2, 2007 - 5:25 pm
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Great! I’ll be awaiting your posts on it! I haven’t played with it much do to not developing in Flex yet, but from what I heard about it at MAX 2007… it sounded like it could be quite useful.
#8 by Anuj Gakhar on November 2, 2007 - 8:17 pm
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Sure Amy, I am gonna try it over the next couple days and will post it here once I do that.