Question

Does anybody know if this is possible?

I am trying to create a flash movie that will show / preview what I am typing into a field in a normal HTML form. The call to update the flash movie would most likely be attached to an onKeyUp event.

Any advice or tutorials would be great

cheers! Decbrad

Answer 1

Assuming you re using actionscript 3....

Check this out

You can also check this link out (its for Flex 3 though... AS3 should be similar for flash I believe)... I ve used ExternalInterface in my Flex projects before.

Answer 2

As far as I m aware, Flashplayer only listens to key events when it has focus (which it wouldn t have if you re typing into an HTML form. I m not aware of any way to inject events into Flash with javascript.

Is there a particular reason why you can t use a text area in the actual flash movie itself?

Answer 3

My advise would be to grab your favorite event utility for JavaScript and then pair it with ExternalInterface. That way, you can add a callback to the EI in Flash which would mean that you could do something like this:

ExternalInterface.addCallback( "keyboardClicked", dispatcherFunc );

function dispatcherFunc():void
{
    dispatchEvent( new Event( "javaScriptKeyClick" ) );
}


document.getElementById( "mySwf" ).keyboadClicked();

Answer 4

Hey guys, thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I haven t touched flash since version 4 so to say that i m rusty... is an understatement!

The reason I haven t built the text area in the actual flash movie is because the system is 95% complete now and there s a lot of smarts on the server side. The flash preview is more or less the icing, as they say! Bit surprised there s not more of a hook into Flash.

Thanks again! Dec

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