{"id":11,"date":"2008-05-20T11:02:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2008-05-20T11:02:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T18:02:59","slug":"allowing-popups-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Allowing Popups to work"},"content":{"rendered":"

In AS 2.0 or earlier when you use getURL to open up a new browser window, usually it wouldn’t get blocked by popups if the getURL call was made onRelease event instead of onPress. But with navigateToURL introduced in AS 3.0 its a different story altogether.\u00a0<\/p>\n

navigateToURL works fine with Safari but doesn’t work in Firefox (I am a mac user so i personally test in these two browsers). Anyway to make sure that popups open we have to use some javascript and call it from our Flash.<\/p>\n

Adobe recommends we use ExternalInterface since the 9.0.124 update<\/a>. So here is my Flash code,<\/p>\n

var<\/span> boolean<\/span>:String<\/span> = ExternalInterface.call<\/span>(<\/span>"openWindow"<\/span>, url<\/span>)<\/span>;
\n
\nif<\/span> (<\/span>boolean<\/span> == "false"<\/span>)<\/span>{<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0navigateToURL(<\/span>new<\/span> URLRequest(<\/span>url<\/span>)<\/span>,"_blank"<\/span>)<\/span>;
\n
\n}<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

and my Javascript would look something like this,<\/p>\n

function<\/span> openWindow(<\/span>pageUrl)<\/span> {<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0var<\/span> winName =<\/span> Math<\/span>.round<\/span>(<\/span>9999<\/span>*<\/span>Math<\/span>.random<\/span>(<\/span>)<\/span>)<\/span> +<\/span> new<\/span> Date<\/span>(<\/span>)<\/span>.getTime<\/span>(<\/span>)<\/span>;<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0var<\/span> winNew =<\/span> window.open<\/span>(<\/span>pageUrl,<\/span>winName,<\/span>"toolbar=1,scrollbars=1,location=1,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=1,width=800,height=700,left=200,top=100"<\/span>)<\/span>;<\/span>
\n
\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0if<\/span>(<\/span>!<\/span>winNew)<\/span> {<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0return<\/span> "false"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0}<\/span>\u00a0else<\/span> {<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0return<\/span> "true"<\/span>;<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0}<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0}<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

So with this method we first try to open a window using Javascript, Firefox is happy with that and hence it returns true and flash doesn’t make a call to navigateToUrl. Safari blocks the javascript popup and hence true is returned to Flash and using navigateToUrl you can open up a new browser window.<\/p>\n

It seems to work with IE as well otherwise i would have got a bug reported from the QA team. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In AS 2.0 or earlier when you use getURL to open up a new browser window, usually it wouldn’t get blocked by popups if the getURL call was made onRelease event instead of onPress. But with navigateToURL introduced in AS 3.0 its a different story altogether.\u00a0 navigateToURL works fine with Safari but doesn’t work in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[11,14,12,13,10],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-30","category-actionscript","tag-as3","tag-external-interface","tag-geturl","tag-navigatetourl","tag-popups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}