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Thread: Colin Holgate Live One Night Only! || Tonight. Tuesday April 10th.
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| Colin Holgate Live One Night Only! ||
Tonight. Tuesday April 10th. |
 
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2007-04-10 11:57:22 |
Yes yes, we are meeting tonight. The topic will be Flash
Video and
the Brightcove API. Colin recently had the chance to work on
a
Brightcove project and he's going to show us what Brightcove
can do.
Please note we will be meeting at the offices of Funny
Garbage, NOT
at the IBM Public Space.
Good stuff!
Meeting Tonight Tuesday April 10th
7 to 9
Lost? 212 343 2534 || 917 309 3549
Tuesday April 12th:
Funny Garbage
112 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Jean-Charles
PS: Extra info that might be useful:
main number: 212 343 2534
Colin's direct line: 646 205 4277
Colin's cell: 917 309 3549
Subways less than three blocks away:
6 train, 28th street (which is on Park Avenue)
R train, 28th street (which is at Broadway)
Subways six blocks away:
B D F N Q R V W at 6th Avenue & Broadway
tinyurl to Google map: http://tinyurl.com/2mnl9n
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| 1. Talking to the web page. 2. Full
screen Flash |
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2007-04-11 09:33:28 |
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| Some people were asking me about some of the routines I showed
last night, so here's a few of them:
After spending some time trying to get external interface or
FSCommand working for me to talk from Javascript to Flash or back, I
gave up on those and found much easier ways to do it. Here's how Flash
tells the page something:
getURL ("javascript:jsFunctionName('" + somedata +
"')");
That sends the data in somedata to the function named
jsFunctionName on the current page. To get Javascript to tell Flash
something I use SetVariable. The Javascript looks like this:
function functionName (somedata) {
var
flashId = "myswf";
var fo
= document[flashId];
if (fo == null) {
;
fo =
document.embeds[flashId];
}
if (fo == null)
{
; fo =
document.getElementById (flashId);
}
try {
;
fo.SetVariable ("avariable";, somedata);
; } catch
(e) {
; }
}
Most of those lines are just to deal with different browsers. By
the "try" line "fo" is pointing at the embedded
Flash object named "myswf", regardless of the OS or browser.
In the actual swf I check ten times a second to see if the variable
"avariable" is empty. If it's not I do whatever it is I'm
supposed to do, and then empty the variable, ready for any more data
coming in.
I think there may be limitations on the two tricks, in that you
may only pass text, but that is all I need it for.
For full screen Flash I'm using a Flash 9 feature called
Stage displaystate. The Flash 9 syntax would read:
Stage.displayState = "fullScreen";;
but that can be said in a Flash 8 compatible way:
Stage["displayState"] = "fullScreen";;
By working that way it's possible to give a true full screen
option to users who are on Flash Player 9.0.28 or later, even if
you're authoring in Flash 8. A lot of the code in my swfs is
Brightcove specific, so it would be better for you to read Tracy
Stampfli's article to get the general idea:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/full_screen_mode_print.html
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| Re: 1. Talking to the web page. 2. Full
screen Flash |
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2007-04-11 10:02:38 |
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getURL(javascript) can get buggy in IE 6-
What problems did you have with External Interface? We rely on it 100%, and it is by far the most consistent way to do AS-to-JS cross platform.
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| Re: 1. Talking to the web page. 2. Full
screen Flash |
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2007-04-11 10:05:52 |
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On Apr 11, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: After spending some time trying to get external interface or FSCommand working for me to talk from Javascript to Flash or back, I gave up on those and found much easier ways to do it. Here's how Flash tells the page something:
getURL ("javascript:jsFunctionName('" + somedata + "')");
I wasn't at the meeting, so I was wondering what problems you had with ExternalInterface? I have found it very reliable, but I have only used it in a couple specific use-cases. I have found that using JavaScript via getURL can fail if more than one call is made at a time - how do you work around that? Thanks!
blue skies, bryan |
| Re: 1. Talking to the web page. 2. Full
screen Flash |
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2007-04-11 10:27:15 |
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External Interface I've also found to work pretty well and also let you do things you can't with the other setup but in a few projects that I did before this was available I had to figure the getURL thing out. What I found was that in different versions of IE odd and sometimes bad things will happen when you call more then one js command at a time like brian was saying. Two things that I found to work where combining function calls into one getURL. getURL( javascript: func1(); func2(); ); and then because of what I was doing they had to be separate and you have to time them, there is some documented number but I think it is .05 sec between calls and everything works fine.
On Apr 11, 2007, at 11:05 AM, bryan.rice wrote:
On Apr 11, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: After spending some time trying to get external interface or FSCommand working for me to talk from Javascript to Flash or back, I gave up on those and found much easier ways to do it. Here's how Flash tells the page something:
getURL ("javascript:jsFunctionName('" + somedata + "')");
I wasn't at the meeting, so I was wondering what problems you had with ExternalInterface? I have found it very reliable, but I have only used it in a couple specific use-cases. I have found that using JavaScript via getURL can fail if more than one call is made at a time - how do you work around that? Thanks!
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| Re: 1. Talking to the web page. 2. Full
screen Flash |
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2007-04-11 10:47:50 |
At 11:05 AM -0400 4/11/07, bryan.rice wrote:
> I have found that using JavaScript via getURL can fail
if more than
>one call is made at a time - how do you work around
that? Thanks!
The messages sent only happen when specific user actions
happen, and
so long as the user isn't able to click twice in one
instance I
should be ok.
It's a couple of months since I was trying the external
interface
stuff, so I can't remember if my test sends weren't getting
through,
or if I was doing something wrong. From the look of the help
it seems
that it can't work in IE on a Mac, which doesn't matter to
me, but
someone out there might be using IE!
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| Re: 1. Talking to the web page. 2. Full
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2007-04-11 10:47:42 |
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Apparently the problem is that IE assumes a getURL is loading a new page, so it kills the session in the window and neuters any further script execution.
On 4/11/07,
tyler larson < talltylermac.com">talltylermac.com> wrote:
External Interface I've also found to work pretty well and also let you do things you can't with the other setup but in a few projects that I did before this was available I had to figure the getURL thing out. What I found was that in different versions of IE odd and sometimes bad things will happen when you call more then one js command at a time like brian was saying. Two things that I found to work where combining function calls into one getURL. getURL( javascript: func1(); func2(); ); and then because of what I was doing they had to be separate ;and you have to time them, there is some documented number but I think it is .05 sec between calls and everything works fine. ;
On Apr 11, 2007, at 11:05 AM, bryan.rice wrote:
On Apr 11, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:
After spending some time trying to get external interface or FSCommand working for me to talk from Javascript to Flash or back, I gave up on those and found much easier ways to do it. Here's how Flash tells the page something:
getURL ("javascript:jsFunctionName('"; + somedata + "';)");
I wasn't at the meeting, so I was wondering what problems you had with ExternalInterface? I have found it very reliable, but I have only used it in a couple specific use-cases. I have found that using JavaScript via getURL can fail if more than one call is made at a time - how do you work around that? ; Thanks!
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| Re: 1. Talking to the web page. 2. Full
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2007-04-11 10:54:13 |
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oh, well, dude... IE on a Mac is hopeless.
I refuse to work on anything where that is a requirement, it's just not worth the effort. Life's too short.
On 4/11/07,
Colin Holgate < coiinrcn.com">coiinrcn.com> wrote:... From the look of the help it seems
that it can't work in IE on a Mac, which doesn't matter to me, but
someone out there might be using IE!
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| Re: 1. Talking to the web page. 2. Full
screen Flash |
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2007-04-11 10:59:33 |
At 11:54 AM -0400 4/11/07, Timothy Beynart wrote:
>oh, well, dude... IE on a Mac is hopeless.
>I refuse to work on anything where that is a
requirement, it's just
>not worth the effort. Life's too short.
And so am I! I agree, I wouldn't rule out external interface
based on
that, I just mentioned it in passing because someone said
that getURL
might have problems on IE too.
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