swfaddress

SWFAddress 2.4 in Webkit: problem when setting value to empty string to a page with base.

We recently upgraded the SWFAddress version from 2.2 to 2.4 in our Flex project. Our Flex project consist in a main application with several sections inside, and that's where SWFAddress acts. Each section has a URL slug, so when you click a section the URL Address goes to "#sectionX", and when you return to the home section the URL Addre...

SWFAddress tutorial for AJAX application?

What I am after are some tutorials that are ajax specific for implementing SWFAddress in different contexts (in the anchors, in jquery $.change() functions, etc). This way I can learn it myself. What I am trying to do is save the state of a form in the address bar so that the results can be stored in the browsers history (allowing use o...

Easiest way to migrate to swfaddress?

I have a flex 3 app I made a while ago. I used the built in BrowserManager to do the deep linking for the app. I now have Flash builder 4 and I am starting to build Flex 4 apps, which now use SWFAddress for deep linking. I want to migrate my old flex 3 app to use swfaddress instead of the flex 3 default. What is the easiest way? should I...

How to Detect and Redirect from URL with Anchor Using mod_rewrite/htaccess?

I've seen a number of examples of the opposite, but I'm looking to go from an anchor/hash URL to a non-anchor URL, like so: From: http://old.swfaddress-site.com/#/page/name To: http://new.html-site.com/page/name None of the examples at http://karoshiethos.com/2008/07/25/handling-urlencoded-swfaddress-links-with-mod_rewrite/ have fun...

'SWFAddress' is null or not an object - IE6 and 7

I am having trouble with getting SWFAddress work in IE. It works nicely in Firefox and safari, but I get "'SWFAddress' is null or not an object" in IE 6 and 7 (works fine in 8). Can anyone suggest what I may need to do to get this working? ...

Using SWF Address deep linking while adding dynamic meta content

I have a flash site which reads deep links from the URL, then using c# asp.net we read the url and write the appropriate meta tags for the page being requested. e.g. GET www.domain.com/en-gb/scene4/subscene2 and outputs appropriate meta tags to page Then we redirect to the swfaddress friendly page containing the '#' www.doma...

SWFAddress CHANGE Event, dispatch Object

Is there a way to dispatch a SWFAdresss CHANGE Event but also pass parameters (an Object) along with it? I see something like that in the documentation but I can't find an example online... ...

Convention for a client-side (Flash) deep link path separator?

I see examples in the SWFAddress documentation, but it's not clear what the convention should be for a multi-level path. Do their examples intend to suggest that the path separator should be a hyphen? Why not like this? http://example.com/#/deep/link/path ...

SWFAddress, writing a switch/case for more than one level deep?

I'm using the following switch/case for SWF Address: switch (e.value) { case "/A" : function A(); break; case "/B" : function B(); break; case "/C" : function C(); break; case "/" : break; } The problem is, when I am in any section (A, B, or C)...there is anot...

SWFAddress CHANGE event isn't dispatched

Hiya, I've successfully integrated SWFAddress deep linking on a site I'm working on. However I'm having a problem whereby SWFAddress CHANGE event isn't dispatched when you click an anchor tag in the htmlText of a textField. The browsers address bar is successfully updated, just no CHANGE event. How can I get it to dispatch in this sce...

SWFAddress, Back button

Can SWFAddress "sense" when a user has pressed the browser back button? I know it can fire off EXTERNAL_EVENTS, but...does it do this for specific buttons? ...

SWFAddress and Data Persistence

I'm creating a Flash site with a dynamic inventory search feature where a bunch of checkboxes toggle different types of clothing items to appear in a gallery. For example, users may check "Shirts" "Jeans" and "Bags" from the list and a dynamic array of images will be loaded in the gallery corresponding to their selections. My problem...

Major bugs in SWFAddress

I found a couple of rather glaring bugs in SWFAddress, involving IE-based browsers. Both of the following occurred in SlimBrowser (15,000,000 downloads on Cnet) and one in Avant (also several million downloads on Cnet). Both bugs occur when returning to the original startup screen of a flex app via the back button. Both of them are rep...