Just a thing I missed: I think that the effect being experienced by Suzy is a bug in the flex/flash serializer used by ExternalInterface. Let's hope that some adobe engineer read this or.... may exist any effective place where to send a request for bug consideration?
--- In [email protected], "drome.dario" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > It is not a problem with whitespace between tags, as Suzy said, it is > a problem because of the cr/lf in the html code, let me explain: > Supose that we have a string variable named "param" whose value > is "hello Brian\nHow are you?", then when one uses, i.e., > ExternalInterface.call("jsFunc", param) flex tell the browser to > evaluate a chunk of javascript code similar to this one: > > jsFunc("hello Brian > How are you?"); > > that is a totally illegal javascript sentence. > However, if the value of "param" is "hello Brian\\nHow are you?", > then, the javascript code being evaluated would be: > > jsFunc("hello Brian\nHow are you?"); > > which is good for the javascript interpreter. > > Thus, the solution is to replace all newline-chars with "\\n" string: > > var pattern:RegExp = /\n/gi; > htmlstr = htmlstr.replace(pattern, "\\n" ); > ExternalInterface.call("ShowHTML", htmlstr); > > In that way, the html's original "layout" is not changed and, the > most important: IT WORKS! > > --- In [email protected], "Brian Riggs" <bringrags@> > wrote: > > > > One thing you could try is to assign the String to an (e4x) XML > > object, set XML.ignoreWhitespace to true, and then output the > result > > using XML.toXMLString(). This should cause whitespace between tags > > to be stripped out. > > > > -- Brian > > > > --- In [email protected], "Suzy Lawson" <suzylawson@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Christophe's blog in this case doesn't help. His iFrame points to > a > > > static HTML page. > > > > > > I have a String like this: > > > > > > //whether it be js or Flex...and my string has spaces b/w lines > just > > > like this > > > var htmlString : String = "<html><head> > > > > > > <title>test</test><body>my > > > body > > > <body></html>"; > > > > > > there's no way I know of to assign this to a new window or Flex > > object > > > and have it display correctly. If I make the String above lal one > > > line, then it works OK. > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "tonyx_788" <tonyx_788@> wrote: > > > > > > > > hi Suzy i think Phil is talking about coenraets blog, > > > > this is the link hope it helps > > > > > > > > http://www.coenraets.com/apps/iframe/index.htm > > > > > > > > **Saludos** > > > > Tony > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Phil Marston <p.marston@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi Suzy, > > > > > > > > > > I can't remember which blog I saw it on (one of the Adobe > guys I > > > > think), > > > > > but I saw an example using an IFrame to load the HTML in. > Then > > a > > > > custom > > > > > component in the Flex movie sent messages to Javascript so > the > > IFrame > > > > > always appeared in the right place and the right size over > the > > Flex > > > > page > > > > > - it worked really nicely and sound like just what you need - > > sorry I > > > > > can't be more help, but perhaps this'll jog the memory of > > someone > > > > who as > > > > > a memory! > > > > > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > > > > > Phil > > > > > > > > > > Suzy Lawson wrote: > > > > > > Hello Group- > > > > > > I have an app that receives XML data over the socket. > > > Specifically, > > > > > > it is data that is in 2 formats (plain text and HTML). > > > > > > > > > > > > The HTML that gets sent represents the FULL html code (i.e. > > the > > > > > > top-level 'html', 'meta', 'head', 'style', 'div', 'body' > tags > > > etc..). > > > > > > > > > > > > Sometimes the tags have namespaces and even 'class' > attributes > > > > > > assigned to them which relate to styles defined w/i the > > <style> tag. > > > > > > > > > > > > For this reason, I can't just set the XML value to > > the 'htmlText' > > > > > > attribute of a text field. > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried using the ExternalInterface API and pass the HTML > (see > > > example > > > > > > below) to a javscript method which opens a new window and > > calls > > > > > > 'document.write(passedValueFromFlex)', but that does not > work > > b/c of > > > > > > the extra rows between tags. If I manually remove the white > > spaces > > > > > > from each row where the HTML is one long String...it works > > fine. > > > > > > > > > > > > Using a parser to handle that would be near impossible to > > create > > > > > > though. 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