21 Communicating between Flex and JavaScript
Goal
You’d like to integrate Flex with an existing JavaScript-powered HTML application.
Solution
Use either Flex’s ExternalInterface or the Flex-Ajax Bridge to enable two-way communication between Flex and JavaScript.
Communication between Flex and JavaScript
What does it mean that we can communicate between Flex and JavaScript? Pretty much anything you’d like to tell Flex to do from JavaScript, and vice versa. The communication can either be in terms of calling methods with ExternalInterface or setting properties in Flex via the Flex-Ajax bridge.
Even though we haven’t mentioned it much so far, since it’s not something that requires extra work to accomplish, Flex works great ...
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