Opening links to web pages from AS3 is pretty well covered in various online documentation. \u00a0It’s similarly straightforward in Haxe. \u00a0Recently, however, I came to realize that it wasn’t normal Flash behavior that Haxe programs would only open links in the browser or standalone player if served from a server, \u00a0even localhost, and not from a local ‘file:’ URL.<\/p>\n
It turned out this was because Haxe by default compiles to a different, more restricted network security model than that to which the Adobe tools compile. \u00a0Even if opened from a As a sidenote, the code to open a link in Haxe looks like this:<\/p>\n Its equivalent in AS3 looks like the following:<\/p>\n Internally Haxe’s Opening links to web pages from AS3 is pretty well covered in various online documentation. \u00a0It’s similarly straightforward in Haxe. \u00a0Recently, however, I came to realize that it wasn’t normal Flash behavior that Haxe programs would only open links in the browser or standalone player if served from a server, \u00a0even localhost, and not from … Continue reading MouseEvent<\/code>, the navigation calls are blocked, as is all network access from a local SWF. \u00a0To enable this network access and allow links to be opened, you have to compile with the network-sandbox<\/code> compiler flag (-Dnetwork-sandbox<\/code>). \u00a0The documentation for it is a little non-intuitively ambiguous, but that actually enables more access than the default. \u00a0Links should now all work, from a hosted or local SWF.<\/p>\n\r\nimport flash.Lib;\r\nimport flash.text.TextField;\r\nimport flash.display.Sprite;\r\nimport flash.net.URLRequest;\r\nimport flash.events.MouseEvent;\r\nimport flash.events.Event;\r\n\r\nclass Sample extends Sprite\r\n{\r\n public function new()\r\n {\r\n super();\r\n\r\n Lib.current.stage.addChild(this);\r\n\r\n var label:TextField=new TextField();\r\n label.width=800;\r\n label.text=\"Click to open google!\";\r\n addChild(label);\r\n Lib.current.stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,onClick);\r\n }\r\n\r\n public function onClick(inEvent:MouseEvent)\r\n {\r\n Lib.getURL(new URLRequest(\"http:\/\/www.google.com\"));\r\n }\r\n\r\n public static function main()\r\n {\r\n new Sample();\r\n }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\npackage {\r\n\r\n import flash.display.Sprite;\r\n import flash.text.TextField;\r\n import flash.net.URLRequest;\r\n import flash.events.MouseEvent;\r\n import flash.events.Event;\r\n\r\n import flash.net.navigateToURL;\r\n import flash.net.URLRequest;\r\n\r\n public class LinkTest extends Sprite {\r\n public function LinkTest() {\r\n var label:TextField = new TextField();\r\n label.width = 200;\r\n label.text = \"Click here\";\r\n addChild(label);\r\n\r\n\r\n label.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);\r\n }\r\n\r\n\r\n public function onClick(e:MouseEvent) {\r\n navigateToURL(new URLRequest(\"http:\/\/google.com\"));\r\n }\r\n }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\nflash.Lib<\/code> is actually literally just calling navigateToURL<\/code> via a pretty wild looking cast on the global symbol table entry, since Haxe has no concept of package level functions like AS3 does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"