How to catch click on flash player?

Question

I`m using SWFObject for flash player on my webpage. Player as usual has buttons like Play, Stop, Pause etc. I need to catch moment, when my user click on any button and i need to execute some JS-function in this time. Sorry for my english and thanks a lot in advance. P.S. I dont have sources of my swf file.

Answer 1

AFAIK, this is done via the getURL() function. You need to define the following in the action script of the flash file:

this.onClick = function(){ 
    getURL("javascript:yourFunctionName();");
};

This means you can't just take any flash file and make it call JS functions, it must be defined within the flash file itself.

If I am wrong, I'd love to hear how this can be done more generically without editing the flash itself.

Answer 2

Calling a javascript function from flash can also be achieved using ExternalInterface.

Answer 3

You can use the method onPress.

Example

[button_name].onPress = function(){

//right here the stuff you wanna do

}

Answer 4

Hmm...

At the risk of going out on a limb, I actually don't think there's any way, within the confines of cross-browser Javascript proper, to hook into specific Flash player activity like that. In fact I'd be very surprised indeed if there were -- although I'd love to hear otherwise from someone more knowledgeable than me. :)

Assuming that's true, other than by some combination of listening (in the Javascript running in the context of your page) for focus and click events raised by the ActiveX/plug-in object itself (which probably wouldn't be very specific or dependable -- I don't even think click events get raised ), I doubt you'd have much luck.

From what brief testing I've done so far:

window.onload = function()
{
    document.onclick = function()
    {
     alert("Clicked the page!");
    }

    document.getElementById("mySWFObjectID").onfocus = function()
    {
     alert("Focused the player!");
    }

    document.getElementById("mySWFObjectID").onclick = function()
    {
     alert("Clicked the player!");
    }
}

... the player doesn't seem to be bubbling click events up to the page; in IE, the focus event fires, but not in Firefox, and only once, when the control gains focus. So aside from writing, maybe, a browser plug-in of some kind, to get you some lower-level access than what's exposed at the Javascript level, you might be out of luck on this one.

But again, if there's anyone out there who knows otherwise...