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A blog about User Interface, User Experience, Design, Flash, Product management and all that goes in between.
Microsoft secrets
| Client | Microsoft’s innovation lab |
| Medium | Web |
| Date | June 2011 | Description | The smartest banner you have ever seen, more code in this small piece of flash than in a full bloated website. |
| Categories | Flash programing, design |
| URL | NA |
Microsoft’s innovation lab
| Client | Microsoft |
| Medium | Web |
| Date | June 2011 | Description | The smartest banner you have ever seen, more code in this small piece of flash than in a full bloated website. |
| Categories | Flash programing, design |
| URL | NA |
Microsoft’s innovation lab
| Client | Microsoft |
| Medium | Web |
| Date | June 2011 |
| The smartest banner you have ever seen, more code in this small piece of flash than in a full bloated website. | |
| Categories | Flash programing, design |
| URL | NA |
Amdocs
| Client | Amdocs |
| Medium | Web |
| Date | Apr 2011 |
| Description | Slick online presentation, the navigation is based on sliding, similar to the iPhone behavior. |
| Categories | Flash programing, design |
| URL |
Amdocs
| Client | Amdocs |
| Medium | Web |
| Date | Apr 2011 |
| Description | Slick online presentation, the navigation is based on sliding, similar to the iPhone behavior. |
| Categories | Flash programing, design |
| URL |
BabyFirstTV
| Client | BabyFirstTV |
| Medium | Web |
| Date | Oct 2010 |
| Description | Worked with BabyFirst team to program the client-side activities and medias manager for the BabyFistTV online platform. Advanced server communication, external medias management, statistic tracing. |
| Categories | Flash programing |
| URL | babyfirsttv.com |
Injecting and calling JS functions from within flash using external
I recently encountered a unique requirement in one of my projects, triggering the loading of a page in the background (outside of flash, using Ajax) from within flash.
Often you cannot rely on JS functions to be available, you could load public libraries (Jquery or equivalent) or inject your own functions to the DOM, I chose to inject my own.
This is how you do it:
1) import the external class.
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
2) declare a constant variable with all the JS functions:
private const script_js :XML =
<script>
<![CDATA[
function() {
AJXFNC = {
ajaxFunction:function(_url){
var ajaxRequest;
try{
// Opera 8.0+, Firefox, Safari, Chrome
ajaxRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
ajaxRequest.open("GET", _url, true);
ajaxRequest.send(null);
} catch (e){
// Internet Explorer Browsers
try{
ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
ajaxRequest.open("GET", _url, true);
ajaxRequest.send();
} catch (e) {
try{
ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
ajaxRequest.open("GET", _url, true);
ajaxRequest.send();
} catch (e){
// Something went wrong
return false;
}
}
}
}
}
}
]]>
</script>;
3) inject the JS to DOM:
try {
if( ExternalInterface.available )ExternalInterface.call( script_js );
} catch( error:Error ) {
trace("ExternalInterface is not available");
}
4) call a function:
ExternalInterface.call( "AJXFNC.ajaxFunction", "http://www.google.com" );
Sweet isn’t it?
Injecting and calling JS functions from within flash using external
I recently encountered a unique requirement in one of my projects, triggering the loading of a page in the background (outside of flash, using Ajax) from within flash.
Often you cannot rely on JS functions to be available, you could load public libraries (Jquery or equivalent) or inject your own functions to the DOM, I chose to inject my own.
This is how you do it:
1) import the external class.
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
2) declare a constant variable with all the JS functions:
private const script_js :XML =
<script>
<![CDATA[
function() {
AJXFNC = {
ajaxFunction:function(_url){
var ajaxRequest;
try{
// Opera 8.0+, Firefox, Safari, Chrome
ajaxRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
ajaxRequest.open("GET", _url, true);
ajaxRequest.send(null);
} catch (e){
// Internet Explorer Browsers
try{
ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
ajaxRequest.open("GET", _url, true);
ajaxRequest.send();
} catch (e) {
try{
ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
ajaxRequest.open("GET", _url, true);
ajaxRequest.send();
} catch (e){
// Something went wrong
return false;
}
}
}
}
}
}
]]>
</script>;
3) inject the JS to DOM:
try {
if( ExternalInterface.available )ExternalInterface.call( script_js );
} catch( error:Error ) {
trace("ExternalInterface is not available");
}
4) call a function:
ExternalInterface.call( "AJXFNC.ajaxFunction", "http://www.google.com" );
Sweet isn’t it?
Adi Feiwel, 37, comes from graphic design background, vast experience in Internet and application interfaces, currently working as freelance on projects basis. More about me here.
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