Dynamic Resize Flash Application Container / Flash Stage ( without external JavaScript )

If you have dynamic content within your Flash application or you have several states or “pages” implemented, which all have different content, it might be helpful to resize your flash aplication container within the html- context. For this it’s not enough to resize the application from within the flash application. You also have to resize [...]

Quick start with Flash ExternalInterface class

The ExternalInterface class allows you to communicate with the Flash wrapping container, which is usually the HTML page with JavaScript capeability. It allows you to send data from ActionsScript to JavaScript and vice versa. The ExternalInterface class is implemented for nearly all current browsers. Please see the documentation for a detailed list of the supported [...]

swfInputs: Solving Mozilla + Transparent Mode + Win + Special Chars within inputs

As you probably know the Flash Player uses three different types of modes an Flash movie is embedded in the browser window. Its is set via the wmode parameter in the embed or param tag. <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <embed wmode="transparent" … With the transparent mode you can influence the relation between the Flash movie [...]

How to handle massive ExternalInterface calls (JsCallStack)

We use the ExternalInterface of the Flash Player to let JavaScript resize the HTML-Container of the Flex application. Our App loads dynamic content via XML and builds a list of entries. But we would like the user to use the standard browser scrollbar and not a scrollbar within the flex application. So we have to [...]