Flex 3 Need Help with Deep Linking

Question

Hi,

I need some help with deeplinking on a Flex 3 website. I've got a weird problem. I set-up deeplinking and everything was working fine. I could use the back button and I could paste the url in the browser and it would open to the appropriate "page".   I set-up the deeplinking using the ViewStack's selected index as the fragment to set. So www.mysite.com/#a=2, for example with 2 being the viewstack's selected index. This worked fine.  

//ORIGINAL WORKING
private function initBrowserManager():void {

    browserManager = BrowserManager.getInstance();

    browserManager.addEventListener(BrowserChangeEvent.BROWSER_URL_CHANGE, parseUrl)

    browserManager.init(, My Website Title);

    parseUrl();  

}


private function updateUrl():void {

 browserManager.setFragment(a=+ mainViewStack.selectedIndex);

}

    But, I didn't want to use the selected indexes as they change when I add content and more importantly, I wanted SEO friendly URLs that contained words. So, the URL would be, for example, www.mysite.com/#view=my_cool_stuff. So, I took the viewstack.selectedChild id's, replaced the underscores with dashes and I also capitalized the page titles. This is what I've got:    

//NEW Version with Problems
private function initBrowserManager():void {

    browserManager = BrowserManager.getInstance();

    browserManager.addEventListener(BrowserChangeEvent.BROWSER_URL_CHANGE, parseUrl)

    browserManager.init("", "My Website Title");

    parseUrl();

}



private function updateUrl():void {

        var selectedStack:String = mainViewStack.selectedChild.id;    
        var dashedURLFragment:String = selectedStack.replace(/_/g,"-");
        var withoutUnderscore:String = selectedStack.replace(/_/g," ");
        var capitalizeTitle:String = withoutUnderscore.replace(/\b./g, function(...m):String{return m[0].toUpperCase()});


       //page title
        capitalizeTitle = capitalizeTitle.replace(/Sat/g,"SAT ");
        var newTitle:String = capitalizeTitle.replace(/Ma/g,"MA")
        browserManager.setTitle("My Website | " + newTitle); 


     browserManager.setFragment("view="+dashedURLFragment); 

}

  The problem is probably in the parseUrl function.

In the last line of parseUrl, I tried changing: mainViewStack.selectedIndex = o.a; to mainViewStack.selectedIndex = o.view; but that's not working either.

private function parseUrl(e:BrowserChangeEvent = null):void {

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

  mainViewStack.selectedIndex = o.a;

}

Thank you.

Best regards, Laxmidi

  The back button works fine in the new version. The page titles appear fine. The url fragments are added. BUT, if I copy a url and paste it into the browser it goes to my main "page" instead of the one it was supposed to go to. I tested it by copying and pasting into the browser on a map page in the new and old version. I navigated to the correct page in the old version, but not the new version. What's happening? I really need some help. I also posted my problem on Adobe's Flex site.

Any suggestions?   Thank you.   -Laxmidi