Questions tagged [swfaddress]

SWFAddress is a small but powerful library that provides deep linking for Flash and Ajax.

SWFAddress is a small but powerful library that provides deep linking for Flash and Ajax. It's a developer tool, allowing creation of unique virtual URLs that can point to a website section or an application state. SWFAddress enables a number of important capabilities which are missing in today's rich web technologies including:

  • Bookmarking in a browser or social website
  • Sending links via email or instant messenger
  • Finding specific content with the major search engines
  • Utilizing browser history and reload buttons
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Using PHP for Flash/SWF Address app alt content

I have a Flash app that uses an implementation of SWF Address for deep linking our Flash content. A simple URL might look like this: http://www.domain.com/#/uk/section/content. This has worked great for us so far, and is deeply intertwined in our…
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mod_rewrite URL to a deep link

I was wondering if this was possible in mod_rewrite, and if anyone knows the syntax for it. Browser receives: http://example.com/video/my-first-vid/ mod_rewrite redirects to: http://example.com/#/video/my-first-vid/ Thanks!
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modify base url using SWFAddress

a question abt using SWFAddress in Flash Lets say it is possible for a user to reach my website using this url: www.abc.com/?from=SOME_VALUE_HERE when i my flash website is loaded. the ?from=SOME_VALUE.. is read and it is no longer useful. So now…
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SWFAddress: adding "/" char at the end of an URL via JavaScript

how can I add the / char at the end of the URL without force the user to write it? I'm starting to work with SWFAddress using JavaScript and jQuery directly (without Flash) like this wonderful site. So something like…
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How does Google read SWFAddress deep paths?

SWFAddress claims that it is search-engine friendly, but how is one supposed to feed the deep-links into search engines like Google? Because in all my SWFAddress-powered websites, not a single deep-link shows up in Google. Tried and failed…
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Major bugs in SWFAddress

I found a couple of rather glaring bugs in SWFAddress, involving IE-based browsers. Both of the following occurred in SlimBrowser (15,000,000 downloads on Cnet) and one in Avant (also several million downloads on Cnet). Both bugs occur when…
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SWFAddress and Data Persistence

I'm creating a Flash site with a dynamic inventory search feature where a bunch of checkboxes toggle different types of clothing items to appear in a gallery. For example, users may check "Shirts" "Jeans" and "Bags" from the list and a dynamic…
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SWFAddress, Back button

Can SWFAddress "sense" when a user has pressed the browser back button? I know it can fire off EXTERNAL_EVENTS, but...does it do this for specific buttons?
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SWFAddress CHANGE event isn't dispatched

I've successfully integrated SWFAddress deep linking on a site I'm working on. However I'm having a problem whereby SWFAddress CHANGE event isn't dispatched when you click an anchor tag in the htmlText of a textField. The browsers address bar is…
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Convention for a client-side (Flash) deep link path separator?

I see examples in the SWFAddress documentation, but it's not clear what the convention should be for a multi-level path. Do their examples intend to suggest that the path separator should be a hyphen? Why not like…
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SWFAddress CHANGE Event, dispatch Object

Is there a way to dispatch a SWFAdresss CHANGE Event but also pass parameters (an Object) along with it? I see something like that in the documentation but I can't find an example online...
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Using SWF Address deep linking while adding dynamic meta content

I have a flash site which reads deep links from the URL, then using c# asp.net we read the url and write the appropriate meta tags for the page being requested. e.g. GET www.domain.com/en-gb/scene4/subscene2 and outputs appropriate meta tags to…
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How to download a Document from ipaper swf

Hi guys I am trying to download a document from a swf link in ipaper Please guide me on how can I download the book Here is the link to the book which I want to convert to pdf or word and…
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swfaddress and frames

in my flex .swf file I check for "#/1" at the end of the URL in the browser address box (and if its present, use a local Flex SharedObject to restore a previous state). if "#/1" is not present, I call SWFAddress.setValue("1") which has the effect…
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SWFAddress and AJAX

I'd like to use SWFAddress in an AJAX project. On the web site there are some examples but any tutorial. Do you know where I can find a quick guide to implement SWFAddress on my web site? Thanks