GetUrl Target Failure

Question

All,
I have set up an html page with two frames, frMain on the
left and frDocuments on the right. I am putting a Flash object in
the frMain frame and trying to get it to open html pages in the
frDocuments frame. It doesn't work. Every time it is popping up in
a new window instead.
My frames are defined as follows:
<frameset rows="*" cols="400,*" framespacing="0"
frameborder="no" border="0">
<frame src="frMain.html" name="frMain" id="frMain"
title="mainFrame" />
<frame src="frDocuments.html" name="frDocuments"
scrolling="Yes" noresize="noresize" id="frDocuments"
title="Documents" />
</frameset>
My flash object is in the frMain frame, and in it I have the
following code:
on (click) {
getURL("test1.html", "frDocuments");
test1.html pops up in a new window.
I have tried with and without quotes, I've tried
main.frDocuments, _parent.frDocuements, parent.frDocuments,
everything I can think of, and it all works the same.
This does exactly what I want to do:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/ts/documents/get_url/main.htm
But in the tech note that goes with it (
http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_12791
) they do not give the actual button code, and under target they
list " specific name" and not the actual formatting of the text.
I'm a bit at wits end here, so if anyone can tell me what to
do differently I would be much appreciative. Thanks in advance.
Barry

Answer 1

BarryInDC wrote:
> Thanks again, you put in a lot of time here :).
>
> I took it out of the component and there is no
difference.
>
> If it is a Mac thing, that means the testing site I put
up should function
> correctly on your PC? If it does, please let me know.
I still see component there. Can you verify the URL ?
Meantime, made one sample, using your frames code tho
I use normal buttons with getURL action and it works like
charm on first go:
http://flashfugitive.com/stuff/frame/
It's the component and your URL action, when I dig it out
the cache and load it in level into an new file, the
debugging
trace some odd URL path like :
getURL ("test1.html", _parent.frDocuments);
Not just there should not be _parent in it but the name is
w/o quotes
which means the file action is all messed up and it's not the
same as
shown in your previous post.
Are you sure you uploaded the right files ?
I tell you, GET RID OF the component. I'm 100% sure it's the
culprit
behind all this.
Best Regards
Urami
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