Trigger thickbox from flash

Question

hello guys!

i wonder if somebody knows how to trigger thickbox from onRelease() event in flash.

is that possible?

Answer 1

You can use the ActionScript3 ExternalInterface class to call a JavaScript function on your HTML page like this:

ExternalInterface.call("your_javascript_function()");

Your JavaScript calls, must be in quotes.

I haven't used ThickBox, but I am sure you use JavaScript to interact with it.

EDIT*

Just looked at the Thickbox API and i think your JavaScript call will look something like this:

tb_show("","mycontent.html?height=500&width=400","");

Got that code from here. I think the tricky thing will be overlaying HTML content on-top of Flash content. There are a few forum posts about this around. I will edit my answer if I come across one with a good solution.