Question

I am trying to create an ad for a website. When someone clicks on the ad, it is supposed to redirect them to a website, and register the click with google analytics.

I have done this with the following script:

import flash.external.ExternalInterface;

movieClip_3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);

function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void {

    trace("hi");

    ExternalInterface.call("console.log", "test");
    //ExternalInterface.call("_gaq._trackPageview", "/vpv/annoncer/[firmanavn.dk]");

    navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.google.com"), "_blank");
}

When i run this using preview->flash and i click on the surface, (where there is a big red square called movieClip_3) It opens the webpage. However when i try to publish as html, the big red square shows, but nothing happens on click. Not even console.log. I have tried setting allowscriptaccess = always but that does not change anything.

Can you guys help me? Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Security problems?

Developers should validate all URLs before passing them to this
function.

For local content running in a browser, calls to the navigateToURL()
method that specify a “javascript:” pseudo-protocol (via a URLRequest
object passed as the first parameter) are only permitted if the SWF
file and the containing web page (if there is one) are in the
local-trusted security sandbox. Some browsers do not support using the
javascript protocol with the navigateToURL() method. Instead, consider
using the call() method of the ExternalInterface API to invoke
JavaScript methods within the enclosing HTML page.

source: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/package.html#navigateToURL()

EDIT:
Since javascript is not permitted out of the sandbox, you can try with ExternalInterface:

ExternalInterface.call("javascript_functionname", "mypage.html");

In the parameters for publishing:

'allowScriptAccess', 'always',

You can only test this on your server not locally.