Question

I have two flash movies fl_base and fl_top. fl_base contains ActionScript that pulls a string variable from a server and parses it out to determine the navigation menu of a site (the headers, subheaders, and the links to where each of those navigation items should point, as illustrated below).

Menu 1
--Sub Menu 1.1
--Sub Menu 1.2
Menu 2
-- Sub Menu 2.1
-- Sub Menu 2.2

fl_base determines the order of the menus and submenus as well as the links

fl_top contains the graphical assets of the navigation (buttons, background, etc), and draws the actual UI.

I’m running into an issue where the links (the getURL) will not work if the aforementioned string variable is pulled from a different domain. So, if fl_base and fl_top reside in example.com and the variable is pulled from test.example.com, then fl_top, while displaying the UI (menus, buttons, colors) will not allow the user to click on the link. I should note that the getURL is located in the fl_top movie.

We have a crossdomain.xml that allows cross-domain access between flash movies.

Can anyone enlighten me why this isn’t working and if there is a solution, short of re-writing the flash movies (which has been decided is a no-go by the higher-ups)

UPDATE

I should also mention that I am using SWFObject 2.2 to load fl_base and that fl_top is called via loadMovie from fl_base

Answer 1

You need to set allowScriptAccess when embedding to let a swf from another domain do getURL(), these are the actionscript 3 docs, but I think that applies to actionscript 2 aswell.