Comments on: Calling a JavaScript function from Actionscript 3 (Flash)

By: FreakP

FreakP — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:17:18 +0000

wow Thx man. Nice Job

By: Hovik

Hovik — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:36:46 +0000

hello again
well Im sorry its working, but there is a TIP!
u have to use it in IIS mode & also function without ()

ExternalInterface.call(“btnClick”, “param”);

tnx again

By: Hovik

Hovik — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:12:16 +0000

hello there
well i find it by googling & seams ok for all but it doesnt work for me. im new & not a Adobe developer.
this is my scenario :
i have a pic in my stage & code below as my code. I publish it in a HTML & add a btnClick function in it. none of 2 ways of calling works.

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ClickFunc);
function ClickFunc(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
ExternalInterface.call(“btnClick()”);
ExternalInterface.call(“btnClick”);
}

any help will be appreciated

By: Elvis

Elvis — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:11:32 +0000

I thought I should let you guys know that I was trying to get a js variable into Flash. I was getting NUlls and had no idea why , it was because of the syntax:

X:String = ExternalInterface.call(“get_X”);

don’t add the paren to get_X, so don’t do:
ExternalInterface.call(“get_X()”);

that will return null, you need it WITHOUT the paren. Hope that helps!

By: Reflexion Graphic

Reflexion Graphic — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:26:48 +0000

Thank you. Very helpul !

By: jitender

jitender — Sat, 21 May 2011 13:18:21 +0000

i have try this below code for Call a javescript function.

import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
ExternalInterface.call(“alertB()”);

But When i check this on brower, Browser is displayed a error.
Flash player eneble security . Something ok setting

By: Talha Kamran

Talha Kamran — Fri, 13 May 2011 23:56:33 +0000

Hi,
Need help. kind of in a pickle.
Someone asked me to create a RSS feed reader and it appears that swf files can not load xml data on a different domain. (Tell me if it is possible to load data cross domain)

so i decided to use XMLHttpRequest to pull XML and then load it in Flash. What is the best way to pass that entire XML to flash movie.

Thanks,
Talha

By: colo

colo — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:37:11 +0000

Gracias!!!

By: Fractalized

Fractalized — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:41:38 +0000

To pick up on an earlier comment posted by Farid…

‘…so i think if you would not to pass any arguments to function you should write
ExternalInterface.call(“your_javascript_function”);
without ===> “()”.’

I have found that passing a js function in this manner, ie. without parentheses, is the only way to make things work if you want return values to actionscript (3.0). When things don’t work, where you can’t seem to get javascript return values, there are no errors.

Otherwise things work with or without empty javascript argument.

This website gave me good guidance and I appreciated it.

By: Victor

Victor — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:09:06 +0000

Thanks a lot!