Comments on: Bummed out over AIR’s HTML component

By: Frustrated

Frustrated — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:28:41 +0000

Hi, for some reasons I can’t see embedded flash movies, embedded windows media player using mx:HTML component in an AIR application. Does anyone here experience the same?

By: Frank Krul

Frank Krul — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:38:52 +0000

Don’t fret, you just need to tweak the incoming HTML object to do what you want:

In a listener for the complete event of an HTML load grab the links:

var allHrefs:Object = e.currentTarget.domWindow.document.getElementsByTagName(“a”);

Now do a for a loop to read through the allHrefs Object (treat it like an array) and call a separate function for allHrefs:

allHrefs[i].onclick = clickLink();

In that clickLink function you can check the current target, if it’s blank, then:

navigateToURL(new URLRequest(someObjectReference.currentTarget.href),”blank”);

That’s it.

By: foo boar

foo boar — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:01:06 +0000

So, not sure about _blank windows, that was a bug in previous builds. Don’t know if they fixed this yet.

However, for opening links, there’s a callback into actionscript, which can then take the appropriate action. It’s made that way to give you more flexibility.