Macromedia Flash® ActionScript: Training from the Source

Lesson 15. External Interface Macromedia Flash 8 introduces a new way for Flash applications to communicate with the environment hosting Flash Player. When deploying applications to the web, that most frequently means communicating with the browse...

What You Will Learn In this lesson you will: Learn how to call JavaScript functions from Flash PlayerCall ActionScript functions from JavaScript ...

Approximate Time This lesson takes approximately an hour to complete. ...

Lesson Files Media Files: None Starting Files: Lesson15/Start/emailTester1.fla Lesson15/Start/counter1.fla Completed Projects: Lesson15/Completed/emailTester2.fla Lesson15/Completed/counter2.fla ...

Getting Started with ExternalInterface The ExternalInterface class is the preferred way in which you make JavaScript to Flash and Flash to JavaScript function calls when you are publishing Flash 8 content. The class is only available starting in F...

Configuring HTML for Basic ExternalInterface Calls If you want to use ExternalInterface to enable Flash-to-JavaScript and JavaScript-to-Flash communication, you'll have to configure the HTML so that the allowScriptAccess parameter (<object> ...

Calling JavaScript Functions from ActionScript There are potentially many reasons to call JavaScript functions from a Flash movie embedded within an HTML page. JavaScript has access to data that is not immediately accessible to Flash Player. For e...

Using JavaScript Functionality from Flash In the first task in this lesson, you'll build an application that allows Flash to leverage JavaScript functionality that's not available in ActionScript. You'll use JavaScript regular expressions to test ...

Calling ActionScript Functions from JavaScript Calling ActionScript functions from JavaScript is necessary to make integrated hybrid applications using Flash and HTML. Often, an existing application will exist in HTML/JavaScript, and you'll want t...

Building a Quiz Application In this task you'll build a quiz application utilizing the JavaScript-to-Flash and Flash-to- JavaScript communication you learned in this lesson. The quiz uses a timer that is built in Flash. The quiz is built using Jav...

What You Have Learned In this lesson you have: Learned that ExternalInterface is the recommended way in which to build hybrid, integrated applications with Flash and container technologies (pages 397399)Used the ExternalInterface.call() method to...