I solved my own problem and thought I'd post the result here for
posterity...
For #1 below, I switched to using the javascript window.open
command instead of navigateToURL() with _blank for the target.
Specifically, I'm using the following AS 3 code:
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
public function open_window(url : String, window : String = _blank,
features : String = ) : void {
ExternalInterface.call(window.open, url, window, features);
}
For problem #2 below, I found the activate event and use it to
detect when Flash Player receives focus after the pop-up window is
closed, and then call the web service -- works great!
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, byte.sensei [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have a Flex 2.0 app that has to open a URL used to configure a
shopping cart item. When finished configuring an item and you
return
to Flex, Flex calls a web service to retrieve the item
configuration
and all is good.
Currently, I'm opening a new browser window using navigateToURL()
with _blank for the target. This presents a couple of problems:
1) When the item configuration is done and the window is closed
(using Javascript) I get the annoying The webpage you are using is
trying to close the window and you have to verify that you want to
close the window.
2) I don't have any good way to detect the window was closed and
then
fire off the web service to get the item configuration -- I
basically
have to wait for the user to do something back in the Flex app that
causes an event to fire that I can trigger on. (I'm currently using
the focusOut event of the Quantity field in the item data grid, but
there's no guarantee the user will click/tab into a quantity field
and then back out after configuring an item...)
So, does anyone know of a way I could open a new window/url for the
item configuration, but then return to the Flex app without the Do
you want to close this window? dialog box AND in a way that would
fire a Flex event I can use to trigger the web service call?
I don't have any control over the item configuration URL/code --
it's a 3rd party application I'm integrating with...
Thanks in advance for any insight/help!
