Opening a URL from Flash using navigateToURL (AS3)

Question

Been pulling my hair out for hours today over this. I can't open another website from my already opened flash site.

Here is the code:

GotoFB.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gotoFB);

function gotoFB(event:MouseEvent):void
{

    navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.facebook.com"), "_blank");
}

This works from the flash player but not from chrome/ie/firefox..

Answer 1

Some popup blockers blocks navigateToURL(..., "_blank"), there is a bunch of workarounds of varying quality out there, mainly involving calling JavaScript's window.open via ExternalInterface instead of using navigateToURL(..., "_blank"). If you google for it, you may find one that works in your case.

Answer 2

File->Publish Settings->Local playback security->Access network only

Voila...

Answer 3

Had some problems with navigateToUrl in recent chrome-update in my Flex-app. Had to use this workaround:

ExternalInterface.call("window.open", url, target);