SWFAddress 2.2

Nice!
I'll update my latest mini-site: http://toki-woki.net/kwot/

Oh boy, I just managed to get 2.1 in the current project I'm working on, and you guys released it just now. That's hilarious! :)

But many thanks for the hard work, I'll have to do my part now. :)

Guys, the clipping on FF 3 on the MAC isn't fixed if used with SWFObject 2.1 :(

Many thanks for your emails and the fix. Indeed that was the issue and now it's working perfectly! THANKS! :D

any plans for a MooTools plugin too?

Nice! Posted it in the news of Flashforum... Keep on the nice work.

http://www.flashforum.de/forum/showthread.php?t=263578

Question: Do you have to use SWFObject to embed your .swf?

I don't whether it's an bug or not but whenever there I type more than 1 (#) symbol in the url, for example http://www.myserver.com/home.aspx#/innerpage.aspx#/ then my browser starts generating multiple recursive requests to web server automatically. My only concern is that this behavior could cause a DOS attack if used negatively. Anyone can tell me if there is any workaround to avoid such a behaviour?? Would be greateful.

Hi.
Last version was refreshing the html to my home if i had some characters in the url like: '!&()"
Does this version behave the same? i see on deezer.com wich also uses swfaddress that does not have this problem, maybe they have a modified version.

Btw, just wanted to let you know that i'm maintaining the port for haXe: http://lib.haxe.org/p/SWFAddress , i should upgrate it soon, i just heard about 2.2
I never realy figured it out how to use the SEO with it, but i'll try harder with this version. last time i got a nice 250Gb trafic for a site that normaly have only few Gb

In fact i rechecked and is only a problem with my haXe port. Do you have any ideea what went wrong? here's a sample:
http://la-luna.ro/website.php#/news/

and then modify the url to have an ' like:
http://la-luna.ro/website.php#/news'/

Thanks!

Hi guys, the code does not work for us on IE6 (and we found a lot of users still have it). The reload starts the whole app again incl. login. And when just opening an information window telling the user to better upgrade to another user on some machines this created an endless loop of opening windows.... how does it work for you on IE6? Is there a better workarond?

Does it work for flashplayer 7.0, AS2.0 ? It does'nt seem to work right here. Is there a solution for this?

hi everyone!
can someone help me? i´m trying to use swfaddress, i´m using de adobe example (as 2.0), but the fact is i don´t like build pages based on frame navigation, i like build single frame sites, i change the "gotoAndStop('$' + value);" to a function , but back button does´t recognize the history.

here de code:

var value2:String = '';

SWFAddress.setStrict(false);
SWFAddress.onChange = function() {
var value = SWFAddress.getValue();
var path = SWFAddress.getPath();
var id = SWFAddress.getParameter('id');


// this is the function that i swapped
navegar ();
//<
var title = 'SWFAddress Website';
var names = SWFAddress.getPathNames();
for (var i = 0; i < names.length; i++) {
title += ' / ' + names[i].substr(0,1).toUpperCase() + names[i].substr(1);
}
var id = SWFAddress.getParameter('id');
if (id != '') {
title += ' / ' + id;
}
SWFAddress.setTitle(title);
}
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

function about () {
b1_mc.gotoAndStop (2);
textos_mc.gotoAndStop(2);
}
function work () {
b2_mc.gotoAndStop (2);
textos_mc.gotoAndStop(3);
}
function contact () {
b3_mc.gotoAndStop (2);
textos_mc.gotoAndStop(4);
}
function home () {

textos_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
}

function navegar (){
switch (value2) {
case 'about' :
about ();
break;
case 'work' :
work();
break;
case 'contact' :
contact ();
break;
}
}
b1_mc.onRelease = function () {
value2 = 'about' ;
SWFAddress.setValue('about');
}

b1_mc.onRollOver = function () {
value2 = 'about' ;
SWFAddress.setStatus('about');
}
b1_mc.onRollOut = function () {
SWFAddress.resetStatus();
}
//////<
b2_mc.onRelease = function () {
value2 = 'work' ;
SWFAddress.setValue('work');
}

b2_mc.onRollOver = function () {
value2 = 'work' ;
SWFAddress.setStatus('work');
}
b2_mc.onRollOut = function () {
SWFAddress.resetStatus();
}
//////<
b3_mc.onRelease = function () {
value2 = 'contact' ;
SWFAddress.setValue('contact');
}

b3_mc.onRollOver = function () {
value2 = 'contact' ;
SWFAddress.setStatus('contact');
}
b3_mc.onRollOut = function () {
SWFAddress.resetStatus();
}
//////<
thanks in advance and thanks to asual for this great tool

Hi, can somebody pease help me:

I am trying to use the SEO example with my own flash project and am experimenting two problems:

1) The stage-size of my project is 900px*968px and I want to have the browsers scrollbar active. BUT for some reason the scrollbar does NOT appear although I changed the parameters from percentage to pixels.... (see below)

2) I would like to have the flash centered on the screen and don't quite know how to achieve that. When using the SEO Code it is aligned to left. I tried using my standard table layout, but for some reason it does not work.... (see below).

Is there a forum you would recommend for SWFAddress? How come this page does not have one?

-------------------------------------------------
this is my index.php

<style>
div.theflash {
width:900px;
height:968px;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
padding:0px;
padding:0px;
vertical-align:top;
text-align:center;
display:inline;
overflow : scroll;
}
</style>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<div id="content">
<div>
<h1>">SWFAddress Website</h1>
<ul>
<li>SWFAddress Website / About</li>
<li>
SWFAddress Website / Portfolio
<ul>
<li>SWFAddress Website / Portfolio / 1</li>
<li>SWFAddress Website / Portfolio / 2</li>
<li>SWFAddress Website / Portfolio / 3</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>SWFAddress Website / Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div><?php swfaddress_content(); ?></div>
</div>
<div class="theflash">
<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
(new SWFObject('<?php swfaddress_resource('/website.swf?datasource=datasource.php'); ?>', 'website', '968px', '900px', '8', '#ffffff', 'high')).write('content');
// ]]>
</script>
</div>
</body>



Thanks for your support!

Kind regards
Ras

Hello.
I've been examining SWFaddress samples and their source files for a long time and yet can't understand why in the example with AS2 preloader doesn't works. It just waits until the whole .swf loads and then shows content.
For example: http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/samples/adobe/#portfolio?id=1
Please help.
What I shoud do to have a working preloader on each page?
And thanks in advance!

Hi!
Working with swfaddress 2.2, coherence sample.
I'm trying to rework at previous site that has some calls to a mysql database:
Ex:
Q1: Is there a way to execute/parse php in the xml files containg the "content"?
Q2: If not, is there a way to call these functions in the xml file it self? That is, make mysql calls in xml files?
here a sample of the code I use in php:

<?php

$query= mysql_query("SELECT * FROM plugin_news WHERE id = '".$id."' AND public = '1'") or die(mysql_error());

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query)) { ?>

<h1><?php echo $row["topic"]; ?></h1><p><?php echo $row["txt"]; ?>


<p>

&nbsp;Back

<?php } ?>



<?php } elseif ($action == "old") { ?>

<?php

$query= mysql_query("SELECT * FROM plugin_news WHERE public = '2' ORDER BY pubdate ") or die(mysql_error());

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query)) { ?>
<h1><?php echo $row["topic"]; ?></h1>

"><?php echo strip_tags(substr($row["txt"], 0, 150)); ?>...

<p>

<?php } ?>
<p>

&nbsp;Back

<?php } else { ?>



<?php

$query= mysql_query("SELECT * FROM plugin_news WHERE public = '1' ORDER BY pubdate ") or die(mysql_error());

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query)) { ?>
<h1><?php echo $row["topic"]; ?></h1>

"><?php echo strip_tags(substr($row["txt"], 0, 150)); ?>...

<p>

<?php } ?>

&nbsp;Read older news

<?php } ?>

I've been doing some tests with this outstanding script and wanted to know if anyone else couldn't get the browser forward button to work with IE8?

I'm using SWFAddress 2.2 with SWFObject 2.1

It works with Firefox 2 and Safari 3 but with IE8, I can go backwards -- just not forwards.

Here are links to my example:
This one is using SWFObject 2.1 Here

This one is using SWFObject 1.5 Here

Hi there,

I'm finally using SWFAddress and absolutely LOVE it. But I've run into an issue.

Is it required to have the SWF file and the HTML file embedding SWF to be on the same domain?

I have a project where the SWF is on a different domain from the HTML embedding it. The problem is SWFAddress is not changing the back/forward browser history, but is still changing the Title. When I have both the SWF and the HTML are on the same domain, everything works fine.

I dug through the SWFAddress.js, placing in alerts, and found the failure to occur at:

this.dispatchEvent(new _31.WEBAddressEvent(_60));

If I replace that with:

var test = this.dispatchEvent(new _31.WEBAddressEvent(_60));
alert(test);

...I get no alert box when the SWF and HTML are not on the same domain. I get an alert true if the SWF and HTML are on the same domain.

Any help would be much appreciated.

I've been working on a website using flash AS2 and swfaddress 2.2 using the popup method on a button to open a pop-up window. It seems to work in firefox 3 without any issues, but appears to fail in IE 7.
I'm guessing that I'm doing something wrong, or there is already a work around for this I don't know about. If there is a solution/work around in any of the documentation or online anywhere I would love to be pointed in it's direction.

Thanks,

T

To work in IE8, add the following to your <head> section of your page
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"/>

See

http://blogs.msdn.com/synergist/archive/2008/07/10/how-ie8-will-enables-silverlight-deep-linking-and-browser-back-forward-navigation.aspx

Hello.

Can you tell me the address for the forums? I can't find it anywhere :(

Thanks

I had some issues getting this to work with swfobject 2, I wrote post on my blog about I resolved them http://fatlinesofcode.philipandrews.org/2009/04/02/swfaddress-2-2-and-swfobject-2-0/

Hello

I am having trouble with SWFAddress by Asual, I am using as2

The thing is if you use
SWFAddress.setValue("/about/");
then when people type URL :
www.site.com/#/about/

However what if when people just type www.site.com/#/about --> without the slash
I want them to keep referring the about sections of the site.

is it something we have to do in the logic of the event handler:
SWFAddress.onChange = function() {
}

Can somebody show me how to turn this trick? I am a noob.

Thanks

I've been adding a small (very small) Tweak to SWFAddress since the first time i used it in its first version well the tweak evolved as so did SWFAddress has :P so i thought its time to share it :P its very small and very simple in the last vertion of swf address i just modify the setValue method to look like this:

public static function setValue(value:String,isDispatchEvent:Boolean=true):void {
...
if(isDispatchEvent) _dispatchEvent(SWFAddressEvent.CHANGE);
}

why..makes it easier to change the URL without it dispatching an event so i don't need to put extra logic in the event listener and i can make the call any time i wan to dispatch or not an event for change if i'm working internally lowering the need for extra logic in the change event ...

its really not that what i do is a better way just another way that for me seams more simple ;) any ways its nice to have that option for users that don't want the swfAddress to be the hub.

good job, great code! ;)

Does anybody knows any reason why swfaddres.href is not working? Everything works great for me except that. I have used:

on(release){
SWFAddress.href("http://www.somedomain.com","_blank");
}

Any idea?

Hi, I have problem in all browsers. Currently my site works only in Firefox because I have messed up statcounter code. I can't fix it right now because I don't have access to it from home. Please check my site: www.solutionstudio.rs
My site is based on code from http://chakramedia.com/blog/2007/11/17/swfaddress-design-template-20/

BTW I'm using wmode transparent.

Thanks Rostislav, I have fixed everything but however popups don't work in IE7. Is there any cure for this? You have mentioned something about wmode. How to bypass popup blocker?

It does not matter whether I use getURL or SWFAddress.href or even ExternallInterface.call It does not work in IE7 when i set second parameter to "_blank", "_parent" always works.

Rostislav thank you for your kind help. It was my mistake with IE7. I had IE7 standalone version which is obviously buggy. I have tried on another computer with normal installation of IE7 and everything is working great! Sorry for bothering.

I am brand new to SWFAddress. I have followed several online tutorials I have found, and I am able to get the Title bar to react to button clicks. However, the address bar does not change, and there is no history created. The Back button stays unlit.

I know that the code is working, because if I remove any piece of it, the Title no longer changes. But having the Title change with no functionality of the Back button or address bar is pointless.

I have the SWFObject and SWFAddress in the correct order, and an id:name attribute. I know those are common errors I have seen.

Any ideas what I'm missing?

@glendon
i have noticed that if you try to set the value from a child of the mc/timeline in which you've imported swfaddress, it doesnt change, so could be it

you're sure you told it to .SetValue()?

you can download a working sample and just change that to whatever you like

any news about the fore button bug?

Hello,

I'm using swfaddress but i don't understand why the swf file is called liket this:

SWFObject('movie.swf?datasource=datasource.php'

and not a simple

SWFObject('movie.swf'

the datasource.php seems to be processed in the main index.php, so why do we need to make a call from the swf?

Thanks for your help