externalinterface.call won't call the JavaScript function - Firefox 3.6

Question

I have a function defined in JavaScript like so:

function fadeBack() {
    alert("fadeBack called");
};

I call that function from my Flash file like so:

import flash.external.*;
flash.external.ExternalInterface.call("fadeBack");

This works in both Safari and Chrome, but for some reason Firefox won't ever call the function. Still, I can't figure this out. How can I fix it?

Got this very same problem. Trying to load a file from other domain and interact with Javascript. Any luck so far? — Fabiano Soriani, Jul 11 '11 at 05:40
none so far. firefox just won't register the function call. still haven't figured it out yet. — rjk, Aug 17 '11 at 15:26

Justin Putney · Answer 1 · 2011-09-27T15:58:30.223

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Make sure you have the following parameter set in your HTML or JS embed:

allowScriptAccess="always"

edited Sep 27 '11 at 15:58

answered Mar 15 '11 at 20:08

Justin Putney

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that didn't do it. any other ideas? – rjk Mar 16 '11 at 13:50
Are you using object/embed tags, and/or JavaScript? If you use the standard Adobe activeContent embed, you'll need to add the allowScriptAccess tag in 3 places (within the object, embed, and script tags). – Justin Putney Mar 16 '11 at 17:43
Are you testing locally or on a server? – Justin Putney May 04 '11 at 04:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 17 '12 at 01:36

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This could be due to the lack of an <embed> tag. If you are using SWFObject 2, it no longer adds the <embed> tag inside the <object> tag. I believe that using ExternalInterface in Firefox requires the <embed>.

answered Jul 17 '12 at 01:36

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 15 '11 at 16:49

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I had the identical problem in Firefox. After I updated to FireFox 6.02, the problem went away - your code should work fine in version 6.02. I cannot confirm in which version of Firefox this issue was resolved.

edited Sep 15 '11 at 16:49

Peter Mortensen

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answered Sep 13 '11 at 18:45

Zunandi

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Firefox 10.0.2 here and the problem persists – NemoStein Mar 08 '12 at 14:08

externalinterface.call won't call the JavaScript function - Firefox 3.6

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