Comments on: UrlKit 0.70 with various fixes and Flex 3 Support on Google Code

By: joe

joe — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:54:08 +0000

I don’t think there is any problem using SWFObject and URLKit together, actually — we have been doing it for some time with SWFObject 1.4.4. I didn’t write that JS code myself so I don’t have all the details at hand, but I just looked at it and we are calling SWFObject in a fairly ordinary fashion. One possible caveat is that you must pass a unique object ID to SWFObject for the / tag (this ID is the second arg to the SWFObject constructor). Hope this helps — let me know if you’re still stuck and I’ll try and post something.

By: jwopitz

jwopitz — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:08:01 +0000

Thanks for the udpated technology. Since there have been upgrades to both SWFObject and URLKit, I haven’t been able to use the two together. Specifically using SWFObject only allows one-way communication from the Flex-App >>> Browser.

Since both of these technologies are commonly used in the Flex/Flash community, I was wondering if you might post an example of the index-template-html using the two. I have tried both static and dynamically embedding with no success.

Thanks,
J

By: Michal

Michal — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:04:01 +0000

Thanks Joe,

Your reply helped, and so did my little investigation into SWFAddress today.

I’ll stick to SWFAddress for the moment, since i need a quickie solution, but UrlKit’s rulesets seem to be really helpful, and i’ll get back to materializing your suggestion a bit later.

Thank You
Michal

By: joe

joe — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:38:13 +0000

The issue is not which browser deep-linking interface UrlKit works with — the issue is the Actionscript side of UrlKit, which provides much more than deep linking. UrlKit is designed to interface cleanly between the navigational state of a Flex application and URL syntax. So the ActionScript part of it is designed specifically for Flex apps, not for pure AS3 projects.

One possibility is that you can use just the Javascript part of UrlKit (urlkit.js) as a replacement for SWFAddress, if you find the deep-linking aspects of UrlKit more to your liking. Since urlkit.js just communicates with BrowserManager via ExternalInterface, it shouldn’t be hard to make a pure-AS3 version of BrowserManager. In fact, I don’t think BrowserManager.as has any significant dependencies on the Flex framework. But I did not aim to be an alternative to SWFAddress, and I wouldn’t say that the deep linking features of UrlKit are necessarily superior to SWFAddress.

I do not think there are very many dependencies though, so you may want to investigate ripping out the Flex specific pieces of UrlKit yourself if you want tthe URL ruleset aspects, which to my mind are the more valuable piece.

By: Michal

Michal — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:44:35 +0000

Hi there!

I am looking for a solution to use deeplinking + BACK-button feature purely with AS3.0 in flex3 (not in flex mxml project, but in flex AS project). If i understand it correctly, UrlKit works with Flex’s BrowserManager and other flex classes, but can i use it in pure AS3.0 project?

If yes, could You give me some ideas what needs to be done in order to adjust UrlKit for pure AS3.0?

The best way so far i know of getting deeplinking and BACK-button functionality into AS3 project is SWFAddress, but it has its flaws..

Best,
Michal