Thursday, July 13th, 2006 |
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SWF9 to SWF8 Communication - EI not LC - Part 2 |
Below is an example that contains a SWF9 that was written in Flex (AS-only) and contains two textfields. The SWF9 loads a SWF8 that also contains two textfields. The top textfields are input fields. The left-hand contents belong to the SWF9 and the right-hand contents belong to the SWF8. When you type in the top-left textfield, which resides in the SWF9, the text will get sent to the bottom-right textfield, which resides in the SWF8. When you type in the top-right textfield, which resides in the SWF8, the text will get sent to the bottom-left textfield, which resides in the SWF9.
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006 |
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SWF9 to SWF8 Communication - EI not LC - Part 1 |
It seems everywhere I’ve read when someone asks how to communicate between a version 9 SWF and a version 8 SWF that it loads, the answer is always “You have to use LocalConnection”. I’ve seen that response from Adobe people as well as others.
However, when I started looking into browser communication with my SWFs and then looked into the Flex-AJAX Bridge (FABridge), I thought maybe there was a better way. And there is: ExternalInterface.
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