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javascriptflasheventsclick
Nikola Yovchev
Nikola Yovchev

Reputation: 10226

disable clicks and mouseevents in javascript for a flash embed/object tag

I have a flash object on my page and I want to disable clicks on it using Javascript. I tried to use the following code:

document.getElementById('flash-obj').onclick = function(){return false;};
document.getElementById('flash-obj').onmouseup = function(){return false;};
document.getElementById('flash-obj').onmousedown = function(){return false;};

It doesn't work. Is there any other alternative? Any examples would be appreciated.

Cheers Nyo

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2494

Answers (2)

nelsond8
nelsond8

Reputation: 489

You could use ExternalInterface, something like this:

In flash, register a callback:

if (ExternalInterface.available)
{
    flash.external.ExternalInterface.addCallback("myExternalMethod", myFunction);
}

function myFunction():void
{
    myObj.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, someFunction);
}

in JS, call the Flash method:

document.getElementById('flash-obj').myExternalMethod();

Upvotes: 1

bjornd
bjornd

Reputation: 22943

I think the only way to achieve what you want is using absolutely positioned element on top of the flash-object. The same technic is used to prevent mouse events to fire in iframe instead of main document.

Upvotes: 5

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