Linking to a part (anchor) in FlashPaper

Question

I am trying to create a simple system that will let me open a
FlashPaper .swf file to a certain section.
I need this navigation to come externally, such as passing a
link in, calling a variable, etc. I have Macromedia Director and
have FlashPaper working in Director. I could also pass the call via
an html page.
Is there any way to do this?
Ryan Deluz

Answer 1

The quick answer is the function goToLinkTarget, but this is
very poorly implemented in version 2 of FlashPaper.
My solution and code to help goToLinkTarget work better
follows:
I am going to use Zinc to pass the link in via command line
(as I couldn't get FlashPaper in director to resize properly). I
created a function that will read the original names as shown in my
Word Document.
FlashPaper starts by changing the names of the links
(anchors) when a word document is converted. It does not expose an
interface to get these new names, so I don't know how people were
assumed to use the goToLinkTarget function.
The following code should work to load a .swf FlashPaper and
create a map of its links for easy use. I hope this helps people.
This also includes code to dynamically resize FlashPaper so
that it looks good in a resizable player.
//LOAD FLASH PAPER
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
Stage.align = "TL";
//create MovieClip holder for FlashPaper
//create instance of MovieClip holder and place on stage
var mFlashPaperMC:MovieClip =
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("mFlashPaperMC",
_root.getNextHighestDepth());
var mFlashPaper;
var mBookmarkMap:Object;
//flash paper interface
var mFlashPaperListener:Object = new Object();
mFlashPaperListener.onLoaded =
function(mFlashPaper:Object):Void {
//loading is complete, so we can now adjust the current
page, zoom, etc.
//mFlashPaper.setCurrentPage(mFlashPaper.getNumberOfPages());
//mFlashPaper.setCurrentZoom(33);
mFlashPaper.addListener(this);
mFlashPaper.showUIElement("Brand", false);
mFlashPaperMC.toolbar_mc.brandClip_mc._visible = false;
mBookmarkMap = mapBookmarks(mFlashPaperMC);
goBookmark("Home", mFlashPaper, mBookmarkMap);
//mFlashPaper.setCurrentPage(mFlashPaper.getNumberOfPages());
//LISTENS FOR RESIZE AND RESIZES FLASH PAPER
var mStageListener:Object = new Object();
mStageListener.onResize = function() {
mFlashPaper.setSize(Stage.width, Stage.height);
Stage.addListener(mStageListener);
loadFlashPaper("QuickStartHelp.swf", mFlashPaperMC,
Stage.width, Stage.height, mFlashPaperListener);
stop();
function loadFlashPaper(path_s, dest_mc, width_i, height_i,
loaded_o) {
var intervalID = 0;
var loadFunc = function () {
dest_mc._visible = false;
mFlashPaper = dest_mc.getIFlashPaper();
if (!mFlashPaper) {
return;
if (mFlashPaper.setSize(width_i, height_i) == false) {
return;
dest_mc._visible = true;
clearInterval(intervalID);
loaded_o.onLoaded(mFlashPaper);
intervalID = setInterval(loadFunc, 100);
dest_mc.loadMovie(path_s);
function mapBookmarks(flashPaperMC) {
//associative array to store book marks
var asArray:Object = new Object();
trace(flashPaperMC);
trace(flashPaperMC.fpBookmarks_array);
trace(flashPaperMC.fpBookmarks_array.length);
for (var i = 0; i<flashPaperMC.fpBookmarks_array.length;
i++) {
trace(flashPaperMC.fpBookmarks_array
.publicName_str);
asArray[flashPaperMC.fpBookmarks_array.publicName_str] =
flashPaperMC.fpBookmarks_array
.anchorName_str;
//store this bookmark name
for (var j = 0;
j<mFlashPaperMC.fbBookmarks_array.length; j++) {
asArray[flashPaperMC.fpBookmarks_array
[j].publicName_str] =
flashPaperMC.fpBookmarks_array[j].anchorName_str;
trace(asArray.toString());
return asArray;
function goBookmark(theName, flashPaperI, bookmarkMap) {
flashPaperI.goToLinkTarget("anchor:"+bookmarkMap[theName]);
}