Comments on: SWFAddress Tutorial For ActionScript 2.0

By: Alen

Alen — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:18:01 +0000

WOW, Thanks for the post! It really helped me with the new website I’m working on!

Thanks!

By: AciD

AciD — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:34:19 +0000

Problem sloved.

import com.asual.swfaddress.SWFAddress;
…
target._parent._parent.TloMaski.onRelease = function() {
…
SWFAddress.onChange();
…
}

In every else MC it can be called back from _root. with same function, where root is operator of function like:
import com.asual.swfaddress.SWFAddress;
SWFAddress.onChange = function() {
trace(“Work!”);
switch (addr) {
case “/” :
…
…
}

By: AciD

AciD — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:21:57 +0000

Hello, Thanks for that script, that was very helpful, anyways, when i have put that function at the _root, and i wanna call to it, from some linked Mc’es dynamic made, there is no respond. “undefined”

_root.SWFAddress.onChange(); //is not working?

By: Rigz

Rigz — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:06:47 +0000

Thx for the post man, it realy help =)

By: Sonichaos

Sonichaos — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:56:39 +0000

Cool and very complete Tutorial, thanks buddy!

By: Sudhir Pasumarty

Sudhir Pasumarty — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:28:48 +0000

Hello Alex,
First of call thanks to you for sharing such a useful and great tutorial. I have adapted the same way as you mentioned. I am facing some problem in it. The only problem is my Title wont change and my address also shows as Undefined. http://www.creativesid.com/test/#/undefined

I am using AS2 and here is the link http://www.creativesid.com/test/ . My menu is XML based. The script for xml linkage is mentioned inside a movieclip. I am calling the button from the library as attachmovie. The script inside the button i mentioned as:

on (release) {
_root.pageContainerMC.loadMovie(link, 2);
//link – is the defined xml value
clickFunction();
}

Rest of my SWFAddress script is mentioned on the first frame of the movie as:

#include “SWFAddress.as”
_global.clickFunction = function(object) {
SWFAddress.setValue(object.name.text.toLowerCase());
this.pageContainerMC.loadMovie(link,2);
};
SWFAddress.onChange = function() {
var addr = SWFAddress.getValue();
switch (addr) {
case “/” :
SWFAddress.setTitle(‘My Homepage’);
//Code for navigation to homepage goes here
this.pageContainerMC.loadMovie(“assets/aboutme/aboutme.swf”,2);
break;
case “/”+addr :
SWFAddress.setTitle(‘My Website – ‘+addr);
this.pageContainerMC.loadMovie(link,2);
break;
}
};

Appreciate your help on this. Thanks
Sudhir

By: Alex Petrisor

Alex Petrisor — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:40:34 +0000

Thank you for the comment. SWFAddress will drill down anything, it all depends on how you use it and how you write your navigation logic. If the question is: “Does SWFAddress drill down through all this automatically?” then the answer is no. You are however, in full control on the URLs so in theory you can drill to wherever you please, but that is a bit more complicated and I will leave this to a later tutorial, if I ever get back to this. (I’ve switched the main site from Flash to HTML).

By: Alex Petrisor

Alex Petrisor — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:35:03 +0000

Yes you do, though I would need a few more details in order to figure this out
The _global.clickFunction was just a general example.

By: nwanda

nwanda — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:50:19 +0000

hello.
thank you for your tutorial Alex … hard to find good explanations.
Maybe u can help me on my pblm… I have my site in XML and on click nothing change on the URL wherever I put Your code.
Do I have to adapt this following code ?
_global.clickFunction = function (object)
{
SWFAddress.setValue(object.name.text.toLowerCase());
//Navigation code
}
Thanks so much.

By: Tereba

Tereba — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:10:07 +0000

hi Alex,
Great tutorial, thanks for sharing with us mortals
Question – does SWFAddress get through password protected websites?
mine is quite a complicated situation.. I have a personal website, where I share family photos and video, and to get to the deep link one has to really dig deep:
- first, as you enter the website the first frame has a password check;
- then you are directed to the main frame that has the menu buttons;
- clicking the menu buttons (i.e. “photos”) loads a swf with the desired target section of the website
- the “photos” swf has a series of dynamic html text links to html pages that trigger pop-up photo galleries.
So, in summary the path is:
—> main swf [enter password]
|
+—> main swf [click on "photos" button]
|
+—> photos.swf [click on dynamic html link]
|
+—> html pop-up opens with desired photo gallery

Does SWFAddress drill down through all this ?
Thanks!
Tereba