Comments on: Determining which server/domain a SWF is hosted on

By: umpirsky

umpirsky — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:29:08 +0000

var localConnection:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
trace(localConnection.domain);

By: moonraider

moonraider — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:34:24 +0000

I am new to flex. i wanted to do the following
i want an swf file to call another swf file which has widgets in it and is hosted on another server. like a main swf hosted on iis. i added link of another swf file (full qualified path on its config.xml file) which is hosted on apache. will it work

By: jbuda

jbuda — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:50:36 +0000

Very handy post, just been looking at how to do this with my Flex application, and found this solution spot on.

Thanks

By: vineet

vineet — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:09:48 +0000

Thanks for the posting. I have a flex application that communicates with a .net webservice. The problem is I do not want to hard code the webservice address. ie wsdl=”http://…..” How do I know the domain name at runtime where the application is hosted. Please help.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:42:32 +0000

Great, thanx! :)

By: Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:32:55 +0000

Steve,

I’m a little unclear on what you’re trying to do. Are you trying to load an external SWF into a Flex project at runtime (presumably using SWFLoader) and pass variables to the nested SWF?

If so, does this help:

"1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
 
    
        
            protected function btn_clickHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void {
                swfLdr.source = "subApp.swf?text=" + encodeURIComponent(txtInput.text) + "&color=" + cp.selectedColor;
            }
        ]]>
    
 
     dock="true" defaultButton="{btn}">
         id="txtInput" maxChars="32" />
         id="cp" />
         id="btn" label="Send and Load" click="btn_clickHandler(event);" />
    >
 
     id="swfLdr" width="320" height="240" />
 
>

And my nested SWF, subApp.swf, was built from the following (subApp.mxml):

"1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        backgroundColor="haloBlue"
        applicationComplete="init();">
 
    
        
            protected function init():void {
                lbl.text = this.loaderInfo.parameters.text;
                lbl.setStyle("color", this.loaderInfo.parameters.color);
            }
        ]]>
    
 
     id="lbl"
            fontSize="32"
            width="90%" height="90%"
            horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0" />
 
>

Or, for bonus points, here’s how you could create the loaded sub-application using ActionScript only (oooooh, fancy!):

package {
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.text.TextFormat;
 
    [SWF(width="320", height="240", backgroundColor="#CCCCCC")]
 
    public class subASApp extends MovieClip {
        public var tf:TextField;
 
        public function subASApp() {
            super();
            init();
        }
 
        private function init():void {
            var fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
            fmt.font = "Arial";
            fmt.size = 24;
            if (this.loaderInfo.parameters.hasOwnProperty("color")) {
                fmt.color = parseInt(this.loaderInfo.parameters.color);
            }
 
            tf = new TextField();
            tf.width = 300;
            tf.height = 220;
            tf.x = 10;
            tf.y = 10;
            tf.wordWrap = true;
            tf.multiline = true;
            tf.defaultTextFormat = fmt;
            tf.text = this.loaderInfo.parameters.text;
            if (tf.text.length == 0) {
                tf.text = "(default)";
            }
            addChild(tf);
        }
    }
}

Peter

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:52:24 +0000

Hi
I have a project where i have a flex application that launches a.swf file and need’s to add a uri value to the .swf, and i am not sure how to begin with this.

The .swf file currently has a datainput field where you can manually type the uri value, but i need the flex input value to automatically overwrite or be added to this component….

This is pulling my hair out, any help would be much appreciated. I would even compensate someone for helping me here as i have a deadline approaching.

Regards

steve

By: Pike Nike

Pike Nike — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:06:12 +0000

sorry nevermind, wrong post

By: Pike Nike

Pike Nike — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:04:56 +0000

I found a work around for this problem:

use a full url in request.url as follows

var serverName : String URLUtil.getServerName(Application.application.loaderInfo.url;
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest();
request.url = "https://" + serverName + ":8443/appContext/uploadServlet";
fileReference.upload(request);

By: peterd

peterd — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:19:03 +0000

jlafferty,

You are welcome. That will be $3 please.

Peter