Comments on: Bookmarking in Flash: what can and can’t be done

By: EdwardKing

EdwardKing — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:05:32 +0000

Your article ‘Bookmarking in Flash: what can and can’t be done’ is very well,I’m happy with it! Could you tell me how to set homepage in Flash AS3? I search google,but I don’t find any answer.Could you help me?

By: LukeMacK

LukeMacK — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:49:58 +0000

Hi, here’s a follow up to my earlier post.

It took me hours to work this out so I figured it was worth putting online to let people know!

Make sure you have the following in your tag:

id=”myMovie” allowScriptAccess=”always”

It doesn’t matter what the id is, it just has to have one for some reason to work.

Make sure you also add script access to the tag:

Finally do the same to your JavaScript that activates your swf, I use AC_FL_RunContent. So add:

‘allowScriptAccess’,'always’,'id’,'myMovie’,

Then when you test in both IE8 and FF3 it should work great. I’ve not tested in safari and I’m not expecting it to work in opera – but it works.

By: LukeMack

LukeMack — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:08:08 +0000

@zedia

Are there parts of this tutorial article missing?

quote: The way we do this is by having a javascript function that detect the browser. This function sets a variable that is passed to the flash as a FlashVars telling it if the user is using IE or not. Here is an example of such a function….

I can’t see the function?

Sorry – im a noob.
Luke

By: Billigflüge

Billigflüge — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:12:16 +0000

Well it works wit IE, but can’t get it working with firefox. And that that is my prefered browser… when i try to bookmark a certain point/part on a flashpage it still loads the page itself when i try to load the bookmark… are there any differents between the versions of FF? I’m currently using the latest build of FF3

By: Fernando Trindade

Fernando Trindade — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:10:33 +0000

Hello

@David R.

Well David, you’re not seeing the big picture here.

“What if” we want to bookmark a certain movie playing from a playlist?
If you bookmark the page, it would bookmark the player itself, not tha specific movie…

I can passa a var to the html saying player.php?thismovie=[pathofthemovie] to force the player to play THAT movie..
but it will not work IF I DON’T GIVE IT…

bah…

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:17:01 +0000

I don’t think you can do what you are tryng to do if the user press on the bookmark button in the browser; but if the user clicks in the bookmark button from your application, you can definetly change the url that is being bookmarked because the first parameter of the window.external.AddFavorite function is the url you want bookmarked.

By: Stephane

Stephane — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:26:44 +0000

I have another issue with bookmarking in IE.

I would like, when in IE, to alter the url of the page being bookmarked before it is bookmarked.

That is, when the user adds a favorite in IE using the IE menu, IE takes the url of the page somewhere, maybe in the DOM for what I know, and adds a newbookmark.

What I would like is to change this url, at page onload time for example, so that when the user adds a bookmark, the url being bookmarked by IE has already been changed by me.

Is this doable..? If so, mail me some tip at mittiprovence@yahoo.se

Thanks!

Stephane

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:58:00 +0000

Well I can see many reasons to have code triggering the bookmarking window, you might, for instance want to put emphasis on the fact that your flash application supports bookmarking you want to make it easy for the user by showing the “bookmark this page” button at the right time.

I think there is a point to this.

By: David R

David R — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:52:25 +0000

Bookmarking is super simple, you don’t need to write any code at all. The user just has to click the ‘add bookmark’ button / menu in their browser.

The reason there’s no built in code into flash, is that there’s no point. Why would I want to look around for a bookmark button inside every flash application or webpage, it will be different color, different places, etc, when I could just use my built-in bookmark button that always works, always in the same place?