Deconstructing dynamic deeplinking

programming flash
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hi guys, i’m trying to build a flash site that uses deeplinking for now and perhaps dynamic deeplinking later on.

here’s a short description of my progress so far which i hope will help people looking to do the same. i have seen a few unanswered threads and i think we can get this great code working between us :wink:

i also hope someone will be able to point me in the right direction as i’ve hit a road block :cross-eye

Part 1: The Code

the code i’m using comes from reefscape.net home of ‘Bob Corporaal, a Dutch freelance visual & interaction designer’. you can see his finished code in action here: **http://amused.nl/#intro** that’s a great site, try clicking links and using the back/forward buttons and even loading it with javascript disabled.

the demonstration code Bob used is available for download here.

there’s also a simple demo here.

this demo uses what i call ‘high end’ coding techniques so it’s a little difficult to understand for people who are more used to creating everything in flash manually and adding the code as they go.

so i’ve created a simple .fla of my own that should do the same thing.

here is a file list of the simple demo

http://algorythm.co.uk/design/index.php?path=deepdemo/

here is the demo partially in action.

http://algorythm.co.uk/design/deepdemo/

the hash can be changed by the flash bridge and the history bridge remembers the hash changes but the flash movie is not yet controlled by the back/forward arrows so there is no direct deep linking yet!

here are the original actionscript files used:

Navigator.as
HistoryBridge.as
HistoryDemo.as

here is the code my gui.fla uses in the first frame

http://paste2.org/p/2283

Part 2: What I’ve Done

sooo! to start, i’ve created a simple but not too simple flash gui that uses actionscript functions to handle onpress events. i hope these are the correct types of functions that can be called in order to allow javascript to control the flash movie via ‘Delegate’ which i don’t really understand yet.

the flash can control the js just fine, as you can see in the demo. it changes the hash and page title but i can’t get it to work in reverse!

i expect it’s because of ‘Delegate’ or similar.

so, if any of the more advanced coders can see an obvious flaw in my method that would be great.

a working deeplinking option would be welcome here for sure!

tia!