when this frame loads in flash, print this text in html...

[cosmicbdog]

hi guys, its probably the most simple thing but when you're a simpleton these things seem so complex the first time round!!

basically, I want to have a series of photos transition in flash. as the photos come in I have the photo display the comments for it. its not search engine friendly though and i need to take the text from the flash file and have it print on the page as the pic comes in.

i'm thinking as it hits a certain frame on the flash timeline, the actionscript sends a javascript message to the page to change the property of a div from invisible to visible or something like that, so that when the search engine scrolls the code it can pick it all up.

any help would be greatly appreciated... links or direct advice! cheers!

[Sgaspar11]

You can use

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getURL('javascript:function()');

to do this...

Where function is the name of the javascript function you want to execute.

What that javascript would actually look like. I have no clue.

Cheers,

Scott

[cosmicbdog]

Beautiful! Thanks heaps man I'm pretty sure I should be able to do everything beyond that!!!

[cosmicbdog]

brilliant. got it working! cheers!

[cosmicbdog]

actually.. works great in safari... but when I do the following from the flash file in firefox :

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getURL("javascript:document.getElementById('news0').style.display='inline';");

It loads up a new window with 'inline' just written on the page.

Is there something I am missing?

I tried:

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getURL("javascript:document.getElementById('news0').style.display='inline';", "_self");

But that doesn't seem to work either. hmm

I don't have internet explorer so I'm not sure if its just firefox thats playing up. Any clues?

[cosmicbdog]

To summarise, the following code works in Safari, but not Firefox

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getURL("javascript:document.getElementById('news0').style.display='inline';");

[cosmicbdog]

Here is what it looks like....

[cosmicbdog]

Additionally (and please keep in mind this is my clients site) the page I'm currently working on is http://triumphantevents.co.uk/local-index.php which should show the erroneous code in action. If you let it load for a bit the flash images rotation thing will come up and the text will meet the image to match or it will load the javascript page in the window incorrectly.

Thanks for your time!

[Sgaspar11]

Same thing is happening in IE7...

Not sure what is causing that...and I am pretty sure you need the 'inline' piece there for it to work...so....

Give me a bit, never seen this before.

[cosmicbdog]

Oh, Internet Explorer as well?

I have looked across 50 different sites of ways to do this javascript code using the getURL and it seems everywhere says to do it this way. Will keep trying. Thanks for your input sgaspar

[cosmicbdog]

Got it! I hope this is not a sign of disloyal behaviour in the cosmic dog, but I got some extra help over at http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s....php3?p=617595

The solution (with flash 8) is:

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flash.external.ExternalInterface.call("function(){document.getElementById('news0').style.display='none';}");

[Sgaspar11]

Cool, have you tried using it with the getURL feature and changing it from inline to none?

[cosmicbdog]

Yeah, I tried geturl with 'none' instead of 'inline' and it still did the same thing

Geturl is more code efficient then flash.external stuff I'm imagining?

[Sgaspar11]

I'm not sure I guess I've just never seen it done that way.

It just reinforces my point that there are 20 ways to do the same thing. I don't know which one is more efficiant though.