Help me make Flash listen.

January 4, 2006 5:45 AM

Is there any way to make Flash respect a 'base target="_top"' directive?

I have a flash application which is living in an iFrame, and it has some links in it. I need the links to target the "_top" metaframe so the links load in the whole window rather than in the particular iframe. The flash is not aware of/respecting the html tag in the page header. This is not surprising. Is there something like a thing I can do to make this work? Or is the only solution to go into the flash source?

posted by TonyRobots to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Response by poster: drat! that worked in preview -- that should read:

"...Is there something like a <param name="target" value="_top"> thing I can do..."
posted by TonyRobots at 7:33 AM on January 4, 2006

Best answer: I think it will need to go into the Flash file as part of the getURL statement:

on(release) {
	getURL("products.php", "_top");
}

Off the top of my head I can't think of anything you can put in the HTML which will override the default (presumably "_self") value in the flash file.
posted by blag at 9:13 AM on January 4, 2006

Response by poster: Thanks blag, that seems to be the case.
posted by TonyRobots at 7:28 AM on January 5, 2006