Question

I am currently developing an application in Adobe Flex and i have to use some APIs (Google Earth API, Garmin Communicator Plugin API..) which are written in javascript how can i use js inside Flex.

Thanks !!

Answer 1

You can call a JavaScript-Function with the ExternalInterface.

For example:
In your index.template.html-file you can include javascript-code or define some javascript:

<script type="text/javascript" src="./assets/ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="./assets/js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">   
  function launchEditor() {
    $("#editor").hide();
  }
</script>

If you want to call the function “launchEditor()” you can do this with the following code:

// Run editor
ExternalInterface.call("launchEditor");

You could now send your data from your Flex-Application to your JavaScript and then call the Javascript API.

In your Flex-Application:

// Send data to javascript
ExternalInterface.call("garminSender", data1, data2, data3);

In your JavaScript:

function garminSender(data1, data2, data3) {
 ...
}