Andreas,
Are you testing on a webserver or locally? I rarely get errors from
using ExternalInterface or getURL calls when testing online...
Flash security is horrible to work with locally (hard-drive, CD-ROM,
etc) and it can be a real nuisance to have to always upload your files
to the webserver in order to test, but once online it goes pretty
smooth.
Daniel Holth
I.S. Programmer
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:14 AM
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Subject: [Flashcoders] browser security aggrevations (rant alert)
basic banner. you click on something, a url opens. However, this process
has to go through a delegate. User clicks, releases; bam,
Adobe flash player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation
Banner has a search bar, enter key, when this inputfield has focus,
calls getURL. Nuh uh.
Adobe flash player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation
anything using externalinterface
Adobe flash player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation
getURL calls through event bubbling or event chains
Adobe flash player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation
getURL calls through onPress (bear with me)
Adobe flash player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation
The amount of shit we have to go through to make stuff work in browsers
is one thing (such as raping our own script to the point of hilarity),
but why, oh dear sweet baby jesus why, is Adobe forcing endusers to use
their ridiculous fucking security manager page?!
I have rarely seen a more user unfriendly piece of garbage. Nothing is
clear, descriptions are vague, and somehow the whole tone seems directed
at.. developers?
Either i'm doing something fundamentally wrong, and by fundamentally i'm
talking triangular wheels type shit, or someone needs to explain to me
the thought process behind putting users through such a meat grinder of
a security control panel, because the way i see it right now, we're up
shit creek if we want to deliver content with a semblance of proper
usability and avoid users getting smushed into that security alert again
and again.
My mom would have *no idea whatsoever* why that thing showed up, nor
what the security manager site even does.
To remain objective:
Here's my problem. X number of buttons in a class where button presses
broadcast click events that do a number of things, including opening a
url.
Also, the search bar problem described above. In an ideal world all
these cals would go through javascript with externalinterface (it's a
somewhat complex banner and i'd like the client to be able to alter
where URLs point for instance), but that's a surefire way of forcing
endusers to go through the grinder if they haven't already, degrading
the whole application to the power of max.
I have a hell of a time figuring out how to do this, and it's beginning
to royally anger me.
So please, smarter people than i; How do you facilitate user
interactions with the browser without crashing into this lunatic
security management solution? What are the rules of thumb?
*sigh*
- Andreas R
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