[RESOLVED] [FP9] getURL gone in Flash Player 9!!!

[heidivandy]

What version of flash are you using? Does this mean I have to upgrade to get my script to work?
Thanks!!

[xMCNUGGETx]

If I specify "_blank" I just get the "no"symbol when I click the link. The window remains the same. The only way I have been able to get the link to open at all, is without the window parameter, so I just deleted it from the code.I checked a site I had used getURL() on last year and the links no longer work in Flash Player 9. They also used the "_blank" window parameter. It just seems like I am missing something simple.
Thanks a bunch for your help!!
Thanks a bunch.

Do you have a popup blocker installed? google toolbar, ect?

[j_hunter182]

I'd check the Pop up blocker thing, because there's no reason why it shouldnt work.

[cancerinform]

What version of flash are you using? Does this mean I have to upgrade to get my script to work?
Thanks!!

I am using the Flash 9 preview. Since everybody here is talking about the Flash player 9 I have shown that getURL still works even the settings are 9 and AS1 or AS2 of course.

You can set it to 7 or 8 and have player 9 installed and it would not make a difference.

[heidivandy]

I am going crazy. I closed all security programs and google toolbar. Still nothing. I tried it and it works in Netscape though. Could it be an IE 7 beta issue? that is the browser I am running.
Thanks

[cancerinform]

Have you done this?

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hlight=activeX

[heidivandy]

Thanks- I tried to install the patch and I got an error message telling me that it was not compatible with the version of IE I am running(7 beta 3)
After much frustration, I decided to use

on (release) {
getURL ("javascript:NewWindow=window.open()
and it works!

Thanks for all of your help!

[guinness4U]

I attempted many stabs in the dark trying to get a very old pre flash 8 version of a swf working (w IE7) and believe I have found something that will cover the "_self" case. After setting window.location.href with IE7 and escaping the double quotes as shown below I was only then able to successfully get this to work:

args = "?parm1=value";
baseURL ="http://mydomain.com";
getURL("javascript:window.location.href=\"" + baseURL + "MyServletName" + args + "\";");