Actionscript 3 open in new window

Question

I am new at Actionscript and when I say new, I mean yesterday...

I have this code here that opens a new link

myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,goThere);
function goThere(e:MouseEvent){
    var request = new URLRequest("http://www.jamessuske.com/freelance/korkis/3DLibrary.php");
    navigateToURL(request);
}

How do I get this to open in a new window with sizes?

Thanks, J

Answer 1

I would think adding _blank to navigateToURL will open a new window (see docs):

function goThere(e:MouseEvent):void
{
    var request = new URLRequest("http://www.jamessuske.com/freelance/korkis/3DLibrary.php");
    navigateToURL(request, "_blank");
}
myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goThere);

And about sizing the window ... I think that's not possible (but hey, someone can prove me wrong ;) )

EDIT

OK, maybe you can also size it by using ExternalInterface (look at example at the end) (untested):

Edit your embed html: Add

<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />

to your embed html and add the following call at the start of you AS3 code:

flash.system.Security.allowDomain("*")

Then the following code should work:

function goThere(e:MouseEvent):void
{
    ExternalInterface.call("open", "http://www.jamessuske.com/freelance/korkis/3DLibrary.php", "_blank", "width=300,height=400,left=100,top=200");
}

Answer 2

I don't believe you can control the new window size, but you can open it in a new window using the target property.

navigateToURL( request, "_blank" );

See navigateToURL() on the LiveDocs.

You should also note that in AS3, you must always include a datatype with every single object you create.

function goThere(e:MouseEvent):void {
    var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.jamessuske.com/freelance/korkis/3DLibrary.php");
    navigateToURL(request);
}

Note the ":DATATYPE" after the variable declaration and also after the function declaration. I do not believe Flash Pro will point this out to you, but every single object you create has to be datatyped. AS3 (along with Java and most C-based languages) uses strict datatyping whereas Javascript, PHP, and AS2 use loose datatyping where an object takes the datatype of its value.