Comments on: AS3 getURL solved

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:38:19 +0000

Thanks for your somewhat lively debate on this class. By reading your back-and-forth, I have a much clearer picture of the merits of both–and most importantly, feel like I can make those decisions in other contexts without needing to be spoon-fed the answer. Don't flame-war over it. I would have been over my head by it last year but will probably toss this class in place now that my noob shirt is in the laundry.

By: joey

joey — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:28:53 +0000

thanks steven.

By: kmerlihan

kmerlihan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:06:36 +0000

Hey Steven,
Thanks for posting this! Works like a charm. I'll be using this everywhere now. See you at FITC.

By: slick_vick

slick_vick — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:34:29 +0000

Ok, I'm still having this problem but I figured out that the button is still there after I click it…. The screen fades, but the button is invisibly there, and it seems that the command to get the new url is never executed.. I have over 15 hours straight trying to figure this BS out.. ANy one have an idea or a workaround code that would correct this?? My code is

stop(); navigateToURL(new URLRequest('http://www.scattershottheater.com/home.html'), '_self')

and it's on the last frame of the animation.. SOmeone PLEASE help me out here.

By: slick_vick

slick_vick — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:43:20 +0000

Okay – So I'm trying to use the getURL to open a website in the same window when I press a button and I keep getting compile errors from Flash CS4… The flash fades like it's supposed to, but then it repeats itself.. I've tried everything and cannot get it to work. Someone told me to use this code navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.scattershottheater.com/home.html"), "_self"; and it didn't work after they said it would…. WTF man this has me sooooo pissed off. Can someone give me a hand with this?? I've been researching everywhere and no good news..

When I used this code navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.scattershottheater.com/home.html"), '_self') I got no compile error from CS4 but now the screen just fades out and it doesnt go to the URL..

By: flash netstream/flv playback problem. - DesignersTalk

flash netstream/flv playback problem. - DesignersTalk — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:16:57 +0000

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By: Michael Bard

Michael Bard — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:58:06 +0000

Hi Steven, This looks brilliant. Can you give me a bit more detail about implementing it if I send you one of my getURL scripts that works in every browser except IE?

By: illustrator

illustrator — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:36:59 +0000

nie little utility class.

@total.lightweight
you should put your code in cathc part of the try/catch statement for loading the local swf

…
catch (e:Error)
{
loadLocalSwf();
}
…

ie: if it fails to navigate to a url online. it will catch an error & you can use error state to call a function to load your local swf

hope this helps

By: total.lightweight

total.lightweight — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:10:50 +0000

This looks *very close* to answering what I've been looking for, and have not been able to find anywhere… How would I take this, and then if the URL fails, load a local swf instead?

In short, this is for a CD-ROM: Click the button to play a swf that's hosted online (so it will play the most up to date version), but if the user isn't online, they would be presented a generic swf instead that's within the "launch page" swf.

Thoughts? I've got splinters from banging my head against the wall on this one. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated….

By: Tej

Tej — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:24:26 +0000

Hi.. Is there a way to force navigateToURL to open html page in specific broswer.. say IE ???