Comments on: ExternalInterface: Flash – JavaScript communication

By: admin

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:10:09 +0000

Actually swfobject is quite ok to use (new version is swfobject2). However, in my example, the HTML file is simply generated with Adobe Flash CS3 and it’s their solution for embedding Flash movies.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:03:40 +0000

What code are you using to embed the Flash? I’m trying to catch up on 2 or so years of coding changes and I was still using swfobject.js… I’m not sure if that’s the standard any more :)

I finally got frustrated with the swfobject thing and just did a direct EMBED tag just to make sure it actually works and I’m not going crazy. It did work when I put it online, but not locally.

Thanks for the help, this is a really great and simple guide for Javascript/Flash communication, the best I’ve seen on the net.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:34:11 +0000

Actually for me it works locally on both Windows and Mac OS X, on different browsers (Firefox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome and IE 7). Check the JavaScript code that embeds the Flash movie or the one that gets the reference to it. Also, don’t forget to add the callback function in Flash. JavaScript can only call the functions specified with ExternalInterface.addCallBack().

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:11:52 +0000

Further development on the comment above: I am able to UPLOAD my project and it works fine on a server, I’m just not able to get it to function locally. That’s a bit frustrating, but I’ll take what I can get at this point.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:53:49 +0000

I’m having issues with this functionality. I can get it to work with Flash calling Javascript functions. But every time I try calling a Flash function with Javascript it tells me that the function doesn’t exist in Javascript and never gets transferred to Flash.

I downloaded your example and it doesn’t seem to work in Firefox, Internet Explorer or Chrome. Was there an update recently that might have changed how this works?

I’m thoroughly confused here, I really love how simple the guide is, but something else seems to block this from working, can you offer any insight? Thanks!