RE: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2?
As I said all "seems" possible. With domains you can not talk to a domain outside your own domain (the domain the swf originates from) to an outside domain (www.yahoo.com) with out a cross domain xml file"physically" on the outside domain (very unlikely). So if the Iframehas a loadedpage from some other domain that you don't have access to you can't talk to it. This is normal for security reasons, and that is how the sandbox security methods work. If you are in control of both domains then it's possible. I am also interested in the possibility to integrate regular HTML/_javascript_, however during my research found no real solid way to do it. I.E. drag and drop etc... Cross browser/os support etc... The problem is that the swf container and the iframe parent, control the drag and drop respectively and independently. If you drag an item from ie (link, whatever)over top of a flex button for example, no events are dispatched. You can read, copy, write information etc.. which is good. You can even inject _javascript_ into the html parent of the swf and then run it. I just have yet to figure out a drag and drop solution. I havent given up mind you :) When I get back to it Ill share my findings with you. Your solution below is sound "except" how does flex know that there is text dragged or dropped if it receives no events? Unless you use callback's. You would have to cancel the drag operation in the iframe the same time you mouse out of it and trigger the call back to flex to take the lead. It may just work. I will spend some more time this week on it. If you make progress please let me know... Keep the thread going, I'm sure others are also very interested in this sort of thing. Jason -Message d'origine-De: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]De la part de Mark WalesEnvoyé: samedi 11 février 2006 21:39À: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comObjet: RE: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2? Jason, By domains, I am assuming you mean different domain names is that correct? Assuming IFrame to Flex is not directly possible, here is what I was proposing: - Create a Flex application that can communicate with the _javascript_ of a designated page - Make that designated page local to your machine (i.e. perhaps the one hosting your .SWF) o embed an additional IFrame o embed _javascript_ to point the embedded IFrame to a designated URL o embed _javascript_ functions to support the desired drop functionality from the remote IFrame to the local IFrame o drive the internal IFrame by sending the URL to the local page/IFrame which then sends it to the embedded IFrame o retrieve from the internal IFrame by embedding _javascript_ functions that can be called by Flex to retrieve the dropped text From what youve said, the fatal flaw in this proposal would be that the locally hosted HTML page and the page presented in the embedded IFrame are in different domains and therefore not able to communicate. Is this correct? -Mark -Original Message-From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason HawrylukSent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 8:02 AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2? I don't have any examples but, what your wanting to do sounds possible. Howeveryou can not do this across a domain. It would take quite abit of work to get a drag and drop from iframe to flex. The ifram drag and drop is separate from the flex application. You can't even get a mouse x and y into flex from html in relation to the flex app. Once you hover over a iframe flex is no longer in control (and from my tests recives no events). The click and drag in an iframe is intended to stay within the iframe, unless you do significant _javascript_ work on it. I know what your after, I attempted this myself in alpha, havn't tryed it in beta. Why do you need click and drag in an iframe? Load your data directly into flex. Jason -Message d'origine-De: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]De la part de stuffEnvoyé: samedi 11 février 2006 12:42À: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com; flexcoders@yahoogroups.comObjet: Re: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2? The goal is to drag and then drop text highlighted on an HTML page to a Flash or Flex-based component (or for someone to tell me it is not possible so I won't search/try any more!).I am presuming based on my limited knowledge of Drag-and-Drop using HTML(and its associated _javascript_) and, separately, my experience using Drap-and-Drop within Flex that some amount of scripting will be required on both sides to complete the task.Si
Re: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2?
The goal is to drag and then drop text highlighted on an HTML page to a Flash or Flex-based component (or for someone to tell me it is not possible so I won't search/try any more!). I am presuming based on my limited knowledge of Drag-and-Drop using HTML(and its associated Javascript) and, separately, my experience using Drap-and-Drop within Flex that some amount of scripting will be required on both sides to complete the task. Since I have seen some cool examples of Drag-and-Drop using Javascript and I know Flex 2 enhances the ability to communicate between Javascript and the Flash platform, I assume that there may be new ways of accomplishing this that previously either did not exist or were less excessible than before. If anyone has experimented with them, I am hoping they can share. My ideal scenario would be to highlight text and drag it directly into an TextArea (without HTML formatting would be just fine). My hopefully manageable compromise would be to load a local HTML page that had an HTML-based text field in it and an IFrame. The thought would be I could use ActionScript to pass the Javascript the URL I was interestd in, the Javascript would load the URL in the specified IFrame, I could then highlight the text I wanted, drop it in my HTML-based text field using Javascript/AJAX and then again using Javascript pass it back to Flex. -Mark ---Original Message--- From: Manish Jethani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2? Sent: 10 Feb '06 20:51 On 2/10/06, Mark Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone out there have any HTML/Javascript-to-Flash/Flex examples they can share? Can you elaborate on that? What do you mean by HTML/Javascript-to-Flash/Flex examples? -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2?
I don't have any examples but, what your wanting to do sounds possible. Howeveryou can not do this across a domain. It would take quite abit of work to get a drag and drop from iframe to flex. The ifram drag and drop is separate from the flex application. You can't even get a mouse x and y into flex from html in relation to the flex app. Once you hover over a iframe flex is no longer in control (and from my tests recives no events). The click and drag in an iframe is intended to stay within the iframe, unless you do significant _javascript_ work on it. I know what your after, I attempted this myself in alpha, havn't tryed it in beta. Why do you need click and drag in an iframe? Load your data directly into flex. Jason -Message d'origine-De: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]De la part de stuffEnvoyé: samedi 11 février 2006 12:42À: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com; flexcoders@yahoogroups.comObjet: Re: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2?The goal is to drag and then drop text highlighted on an HTML page to a Flash or Flex-based component (or for someone to tell me it is not possible so I won't search/try any more!).I am presuming based on my limited knowledge of Drag-and-Drop using HTML(and its associated _javascript_) and, separately, my experience using Drap-and-Drop within Flex that some amount of scripting will be required on both sides to complete the task.Since I have seen some cool examples of Drag-and-Drop using _javascript_ and I know Flex 2 enhances the ability to communicate between _javascript_ and the Flash platform, I assume that there may be new ways of accomplishing this that previously either did not exist or were less excessible than before. If anyone has experimented with them, I am hoping they can share.My ideal scenario would be to highlight text and drag it directly into an TextArea (without HTML formatting would be just fine). My hopefully manageable compromise would be to load a local HTML page that had an HTML-based text field in it and an IFrame. The thought would be I could use ActionScript to pass the _javascript_ the URL I was interestd in, the _javascript_ would load the URL in the specified IFrame, I could then highlight the text I wanted, drop it in my HTML-based text field using _javascript_/AJAX and then again using _javascript_ pass it back to Flex.-Mark ---Original Message--- From: Manish Jethani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2? Sent: 10 Feb '06 20:51 On 2/10/06, Mark Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone out there have any HTML/_javascript_-to-Flash/Flex examples they can share? Can you elaborate on that? What do you mean by "HTML/_javascript_-to-Flash/Flex examples"? -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2?
Jason, By domains, I am assuming you mean different domain names is that correct? Assuming IFrame to Flex is not directly possible, here is what I was proposing: - Create a Flex application that can communicate with the _javascript_ of a designated page - Make that designated page local to your machine (i.e. perhaps the one hosting your .SWF) o embed an additional IFrame o embed _javascript_ to point the embedded IFrame to a designated URL o embed _javascript_ functions to support the desired drop functionality from the remote IFrame to the local IFrame o drive the internal IFrame by sending the URL to the local page/IFrame which then sends it to the embedded IFrame o retrieve from the internal IFrame by embedding _javascript_ functions that can be called by Flex to retrieve the dropped text From what youve said, the fatal flaw in this proposal would be that the locally hosted HTML page and the page presented in the embedded IFrame are in different domains and therefore not able to communicate. Is this correct? -Mark -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Hawryluk Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 8:02 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2? I don't have any examples but, what your wanting to do sounds possible. Howeveryou can not do this across a domain. It would take quite abit of work to get a drag and drop from iframe to flex. The ifram drag and drop is separate from the flex application. You can't even get a mouse x and y into flex from html in relation to the flex app. Once you hover over a iframe flex is no longer in control (and from my tests recives no events). The click and drag in an iframe is intended to stay within the iframe, unless you do significant _javascript_ work on it. I know what your after, I attempted this myself in alpha, havn't tryed it in beta. Why do you need click and drag in an iframe? Load your data directly into flex. Jason -Message d'origine- De: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]De la part de stuff Envoyé: samedi 11 février 2006 12:42 À: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com; flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Objet: Re: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2? The goal is to drag and then drop text highlighted on an HTML page to a Flash or Flex-based component (or for someone to tell me it is not possible so I won't search/try any more!). I am presuming based on my limited knowledge of Drag-and-Drop using HTML(and its associated _javascript_) and, separately, my experience using Drap-and-Drop within Flex that some amount of scripting will be required on both sides to complete the task. Since I have seen some cool examples of Drag-and-Drop using _javascript_ and I know Flex 2 enhances the ability to communicate between _javascript_ and the Flash platform, I assume that there may be new ways of accomplishing this that previously either did not exist or were less excessible than before. If anyone has experimented with them, I am hoping they can share. My ideal scenario would be to highlight text and drag it directly into an TextArea (without HTML formatting would be just fine). My hopefully manageable compromise would be to load a local HTML page that had an HTML-based text field in it and an IFrame. The thought would be I could use ActionScript to pass the _javascript_ the URL I was interestd in, the _javascript_ would load the URL in the specified IFrame, I could then highlight the text I wanted, drop it in my HTML-based text field using _javascript_/AJAX and then again using _javascript_ pass it back to Flex. -Mark ---Original Message--- From: Manish Jethani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2? Sent: 10 Feb '06 20:51 On 2/10/06, Mark Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone out there have any HTML/_javascript_-to-Flash/Flex examples they can share? Can you elaborate on that? What do you mean by HTML/_javascript_-to-Flash/Flex examples? -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
RE: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2?
Manish - thanks for the reply. Does anyone out there have any HTML/Javascript-to-Flash/Flex examples they can share? -Mark -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manish Jethani Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:36 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2? On 2/8/06, Mark Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like a few before me I have tried to get the IFrame example that Christophe Coenraets put together for an earlier version of Flex. Has anyone been able to successfully port this to either the Alpha or Beta? Brian has: http://www.deitte.com/archives/2006/02/embedding_html.htm Also, as a conceptual question, might a working example of this allow Drag and Drop from the HTML pages that are loaded to Flex? I'm afraid I do not yet understand the Flex-HTML-Javascript combination well enough to grasp what is technically possible or not. There's on direct drag-n-drop between HTML and Flash, although it might be possible to implement it (primitive data like string/int can be exchanged between these environments). -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2?
On 2/10/06, Mark Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone out there have any HTML/Javascript-to-Flash/Flex examples they can share? Can you elaborate on that? What do you mean by HTML/Javascript-to-Flash/Flex examples? -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2?
This might help: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/20beta1/docs/1296.html Doesn't talk about iFrames, but it shows JavaScript-Flex and Flex-JavaScript interaction with the ExternalInterface API. Matt Horn -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Wales Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 3:49 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2? Manish - thanks for the reply. Does anyone out there have any HTML/Javascript-to-Flash/Flex examples they can share? -Mark -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manish Jethani Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:36 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2? On 2/8/06, Mark Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like a few before me I have tried to get the IFrame example that Christophe Coenraets put together for an earlier version of Flex. Has anyone been able to successfully port this to either the Alpha or Beta? Brian has: http://www.deitte.com/archives/2006/02/embedding_html.htm Also, as a conceptual question, might a working example of this allow Drag and Drop from the HTML pages that are loaded to Flex? I'm afraid I do not yet understand the Flex-HTML-Javascript combination well enough to grasp what is technically possible or not. There's on direct drag-n-drop between HTML and Flash, although it might be possible to implement it (primitive data like string/int can be exchanged between these environments). -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2?
Hi, Brian Deitte posted a port of this sample to Flex 2 a few days ago on his blog. -David Adobe From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark WalesSent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 9:05 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2? Like a few before me I have tried to get the IFrame example thatChristophe Coenraets put together for an earlier version of Flex. Hasanyone been able to successfully port this to either the Alpha or Beta?Also, as a conceptual question, might a working example of this allowDrag and Drop from the HTML pages that are loaded to Flex? I'm afraid Ido not yet understand the Flex-HTML-_javascript_ combination well enoughto grasp what is technically possible or not.Thanks for anyone who can provide some insights...-Mark -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [flexcoders] IFrame Example for Flex 2?
On 2/8/06, Mark Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like a few before me I have tried to get the IFrame example that Christophe Coenraets put together for an earlier version of Flex. Has anyone been able to successfully port this to either the Alpha or Beta? Brian has: http://www.deitte.com/archives/2006/02/embedding_html.htm Also, as a conceptual question, might a working example of this allow Drag and Drop from the HTML pages that are loaded to Flex? I'm afraid I do not yet understand the Flex-HTML-Javascript combination well enough to grasp what is technically possible or not. There's on direct drag-n-drop between HTML and Flash, although it might be possible to implement it (primitive data like string/int can be exchanged between these environments). -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
