Flash, LocalConnection and DOM

Question

I have a Flash object on my site, which has this code:

this.ld = new LocalConnection();
this.ld.allowDomain("*");
ExternalInterface.call("alert", this.ld.domain);

It alerts my domain successfully. However, what I want is to access the HTML DOM through this using LocalConnection and not ExternalInterface directly.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

ExternalInterface is your best bet in accessing HTML DOM. LocalConnection is for communication between different SWF files within the same page/browser.

The LocalConnection class lets you create a LocalConnection object that can invoke a method in another LocalConnection object, either within a single SWF file or between multiple SWF files.