Question : How to bind onclick event to flash via swfobject?

I have a falsh file which is dynamcially rendered to the page via swfobject.embedSWF. Is there some way to add an onClick event to the flash boject that is embedded into the page?

Answer : How to bind onclick event to flash via swfobject?

Okay, thanks for the clarification!

So what you want in AS3 is ExternalInterface. I'm trying to find you some examples as a backgrounder first.

http://www.viget.com/inspire/bi-directional-actionscript-javascript-communication

which isn't a phenomenal tutorial but will give you the basics. Here's the adobe docs

http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/external/ExternalInterface.html

okay so basically one of two scenarios here:
1. You want the entire flash area to be clickable and call your JavaScript function. In this case just use JavaScript on the div that contains the flash piece. Don't bother with AS at all

2. You want a button or some movieclip inside your flash to trigger the shopping cart JS. In this case use externalinterface as outlined below

import external.ExternalInterface;
function someClickEventHandler(e:MouseEvent){
  ExternalInterface.call("WSAddToCartNoRedirect",103170,'','','','0');
}

oh and this may very well not work if you test it out on your local machine unless you've configured your security sandbox, so befor you give up, upload the swf and the host HTML page to your testing server.

Good luck!

Tom

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