Comments on: ExternalInterface not working in Firefox?

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By: Rachael

Rachael — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:34:26 +0000

Thanks James! I tried that and it didn’t work..it said that there is no method with the name setTimeout. After digging around the internet, I found out that changing it to _global.setTimeout would help. So it compiled fine, but it is still crashing in FireFox, so it didn’t solve the problem.

By: James

James — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:31:04 +0000

@Rachael – I’ve found that when you’re trying to launch popup windows or confirmation windows in the external page JavaScript, it doesn’t work so well if you try to immediately launch the popup in response to a click in Flash.
I’ve worked around this in the past by adding the click into an ActionScript Timeout, using code like:

function alertDialog(mesg) { setTimeout(function() { flash.external.ExternalInterface.call("alert", mesg); }, 0); }

By: Rachael

Rachael — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:06:51 +0000

Hi! This is happening currently for Firefox 5.0. I’m imprinting “flash.external.ExternalInterface” and these are my functions: //confirmation dialog function confirmationDialog(mesg:String) { return flash.external.ExternalInterface.call("confirm", mesg); } //alert dialog function alertDialog(mesg) { return flash.external.ExternalInterface.call("alert", mesg); }

I’m using Actionscript 2.0 in Multimedia Flash Professional 8. Confirmations and alerts will crash in Firefox for a while, then it will be okay and work perfectly for a few hours. I haven’t experienced any problems with IE9 or Chrome. Any help would be MUCH appreciated, thanks!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:57:59 +0000

My trouble is very strange. It’s always OK in IE. but it’s not OK in Firefox, when I just make the HTML file larger by adding some text in the html code.