ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
Using the external API
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function sendMessage(message)
{
if (swfReady)
{
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getSWF("IntrovertIMApp").newMessage(message);
}
}
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The newMessage() ActionScript method expects one parameter, so the JavaScript message variable gets passed to
ActionScript by using it as a parameter in the newMessage() method call in the JavaScript code.
Detecting the browser type
Flash Player 9 and later, Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
Because of differences in how browsers access content, it’s important to always use JavaScript to detect which browser
the user is running and to access the movie according to the browser-specific syntax, using the window or document
object, as shown in the getSWF() JavaScript function in this example:
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function getSWF(movieName)
{
if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1)
{
return window[movieName];
}
else
{
return document[movieName];
}
}
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If your script does not detect the user’s browser type, the user might see unexpected behavior when playing SWF files
in an HTML container.
Last updated 4/22/2013
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