Re: FLASH: detecting hits within Flash

[John Croteau]

Hi Erik,


> I thought I remember a thread on

> detecting hits within flash movies. If there's anyway to detect where

> people are going within a flash movie I'd sure like to know.

You can send a getURL from Flash with an attached parameter. This has

worked in all Flash capable browsers tested so far.

Send a GetURL similar to:


URL: http://www.FlashCentral.com?Parameter

Window: Count


2 way communication with a Flash swffile is limited to FSCommand capable

browsers. But using this technique does not leave any Flash capable

browsers out(at least as far as I know so far).


This technique not only can be used to count pages but also can be used

to select items such as music selections in a Midi Jukebox. It also can

be used in it the HTML method of opening up popup windows. In Flash Menu

systems you can extract the parameter and then use JavaScript without

the FSCommand or JavaScript: protocol limitations of communicating with

plugins (Flash).


By extracting the paramter from the URL you can then use it in JavScript

and CGI for many purposes. At FlashCentral we have several things in

development that will be using this technology.


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