How to open a link in a new window from Flash

Hello! How to open a webpage link in a new window from Flash build?

Here is a flash game Tail Drift by Cameron Owen
http://unity3d.com/contest/flash-in-a-flash/

Take a look at the bottom right corner after game loaded. There is Facebook and Twitter icons. If click the link opens in a new window.

How he did this?

Thanks!

 

You can do it like this:

1. Create a c# script in the "Plugins" folder named "CustomFlashStuff.cs" and paste this code:

Code (csharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. [NotConverted]
5. [NotRenamed]
6.  
7. public class CustomFlashStuff {
8.  
9.     public static void openURLflash(string link){
10.         Debug.Log ("This won't work until exported to a SWF");
11.     }
12.    
13. }

2. Create an AS3 file named "CustomFlashStuff.as" in a folder named "ActionScript" and paste this code:

Code (csharp):

1. package  {
2.    
3.     import flash.net.navigateToURL;
4.     import flash.net.URLRequest;
5.    
6.     public class CustomFlashStuff {
7.  
8.         public static function openURLflash(link : String):void{
9.             var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(link);
10.             navigateToURL(request, '_blank');
11.         }
12.        
13.        
14.  
15.     }
16.    
17. }
18.  

3. To open a url simply call the code below anywhere in your script:

Code (csharp):

1. CustomFlashStuff.openURLflash("http://www.yoururl.com/");

Hope that helps

 

ParaLogic, thank you very much! It works awesome!
With Respect!

 

No problem! Glad it helped

 

Wow. I thought only UnityShared.swc can be used to connect between falsh and Unity3D. Looks like i was wrong. Thanks for the point ParaLogic!

 

My thanks to ParaLogic, too. I have struggled with (the lack of) XML-support on flash builds, and now managed to write a simple AS-wrapper that parses the given XML and provides identical methods to fetch data from it. Things I've learned today: UnityScript's Array doesn't convert to ActionScript counterpart (one of my method used to return an array of strings). Couldn't figure out how to return more than one variable from AS-method to unity, so variables are fetched one-by-one after the method call. After hacking that together, also learned that actionscript class-properties can't be accessed and getter/setter don't work either.

 

That's why the flash exporter is still in beta I suspect a lot more stuff will be supported when Unity 4 flash ships.

 

Thank you !!!

Saved my day...

 

You helped me with this, Thank you