Comments on: StateManager

By: gordianknot

gordianknot — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:03:04 +0000

so sad to hear you have discontinued it.
Although SWFAddress is more powerful but StateManager is more friendly and easy to use.

By: Gavin B

Gavin B — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:44:19 +0000

Hi Mathew,

First off I would just like to thank you for StateManager. Too bad you have stopped it's development.

I have a quick question that hopefully you can answer. I am deeplinking and have a preloader in my flash page, unfortunately, when I deeplink to a page other than the default address, the preloader does not function.

I have initialized statemanager after the prelaoder. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks again

Gavin

By: nikon

nikon — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:42:51 +0000

href="#about" onClick="javascript:getSWF("mySWF").navigate('about');return false;"

By: nikon

nikon — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:39:21 +0000

hi matthew, i now use the following code to call the actionscript function:
about

.. but it doesn't work:-( do i have to define the function getSWF() somewhere? i didn't find any information about that in the flex 3 reference.
it would be fantastic if you could modify the test03.zip file and send it to me. i'am sure i did forget anything really simple (because i didn't really understand this as3 stuff:)

thank you
-=nikon=-

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:54:51 +0000

Sorry, nikon. Don't use document.getElementById. Instead use a function like the getSWF function presented here.

By: nikon

nikon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:05:18 +0000

hi matthew, i still need some help with the callback. do i need a recource file for the ExternalInterface? or maybe i made a mistake. i've uploaded the modified flash-1.fla example file and the html example site.
http://uptmoor.com/tmp/test03.zip
could you please take a look at it?

thanks a lot
-=nikon=-

By: nathan

nathan — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:09:01 +0000

so sad to hear you have discontinued it.
swfaddress is so unfriendly to use.

By: nikon

nikon — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:20:56 +0000

@matthew: i've added the as code to your example flash-1.fla and the onclick event to my html file. but i didn't get it. could you please take a look at the source code?
-> http://uptmoor.com/tmp/statemanager2/
have i made an anything wrong?

greetings from berlin
-=nikon=-

By: matthew

matthew — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:12:37 +0000

@nikon: It's really only due to an implementation detail that those links work in FireFox. If you want to do that, you'll have to add a callback from within your flash piece and call that when the links are clicked. Your ActionScript will look something like this:

import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
ExternalInterface.addCallback('navigate', navigate);
function navigate(stateID:String):void
{
    StateManager.setState(stateID);
}

And your JavaScript will look like this:

document.getElementById('aboutLink').onclick = function()
{
    document.getElementById('mySWF').navigate('about');
    return false;
}

This assumes that your HTML link has id "aboutLink" and your SWF has id "mySWF."

By: nikon

nikon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:20:26 +0000

hi, i'm trying to manipulate a flash movie with html links. it works well with firefox but in safari and IE the url changes but not the fash content. you have to reload the page manually.

here's an example
http://uptmoor.com/tmp/statemanager/

does anybody have an idea how i could solve this?

thanks for help
nikon