Comments on: SWFAddress Tutorial For ActionScript 2.0

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

By: Alex Petrisor

Alex Petrisor — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:06:35 +0000

You are welcome Vibor.

By: Vibor

Vibor — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:42:47 +0000

Thanks a lot for this step-by-step tutorial.

By: Alex Petrisor

Alex Petrisor — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:39:40 +0000

Well can’t you setValue(“gallery”) on roll out? Anyway instead of appending the image[i] why don’t you use something like setvalue(“gallery/”+image[i]) that way you won’t get the /image1/image1 problem.

However, the main issue here is to code your site so that when someone types in the URL “www.yoursite.com/gallery/image1.jpg” he gets taken to that image. That would be the difficult part, not setting the URL to something when your are seeing an image.

I wish I could help you more, but I’ve been really busy recently. Maybe if you show me a bit more code I can help you a bit more. Send me an email if you can.

By: Graphections

Graphections — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:05:50 +0000

Hey Duda and Alex, im trying to deeplink to specific images and videos too.

It seems to me that the way to do it is to setValue()+image[i] on release – (this is easy)
The tough part is reseting the address on rollout, or for a new image. My address is appended by the new file
eg: gallery/image1.jpeg
Then on click again of the image i get
gallery/image1.jpeg/image1.jpeg

Any thoughts?

By: Alex Petrisor

Alex Petrisor — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:05:19 +0000

You’re welcome Mile

By: Mile

Mile — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:03:37 +0000

Great tutorial – thank you!