RE: [flexcoders] BrowserChangeEvent.BROWSER_URL_CHANGE not firing

[Alex Harui]

Lots of deeplinking doesn't work if you use IE and file://.  Deploy to a server 
and try again using http://

Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/>
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Davis Ford
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:40 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] BrowserChangeEvent.BROWSER_URL_CHANGE not firing



Hi, I'm trying to implement deep linking via BrowserManager.  I've basically 
emulated many of the examples on this topic, and I seem to be stuck getting the 
BrowserChangeEvent.BROWSER_URL_CHANGE to fire.  When I change the URL fragment 
in the address bar and hit enter, it does nothing.  If I breakpoint the code in 
the handler for the event, I never hit it.

I'm using FB, and I generated the default HTML template.  It created the 
history/history.css, historyFrame.html, history.js, etc.  I did not edit any of 
the generated html template files.

The app's MXML header looks like this (disabled historyManagement)

<mx:Application
            xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
        xmlns:views="views"
            historyManagementEnabled="false"
            layout="absolute" >

<!-- Views __________________________________________________________ -->
    <views:MainUI/>

</mx:Application>

MainUI has this header:

<mx:Canvas
  xmlns:views="axeda.ui.views.*"
  xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; width="100%" height="100%" 
creationComplete="init(event)">

with this init function:

private function init(event:Event):void {
        browserManager = BrowserManager.getInstance();
        browserManager.addEventListener(BrowserChangeEvent.BROWSER_URL_CHANGE, 
parseURL);
        callLater(parseURL);
    }

and here's some of parseURL

private function parseURL(event:Event = null):void {
            isParsing = true;

            var o:Object = URLUtil.stringToObject(browserManager.fragment);

        etc.


Now, if I set a breakpoint in parseURL, it hits it the very first time the app 
loads, but if I change the fragment, and hit enter, it never reaches it, and I 
can't figure out why.  The Browser is IE7 -- any ideas on why I can't get this 
event to fire?

Thanks in advance,
Davis