as3 ExternalInterface.addCallback is not working right - javascript

I was trying to access swf from javascript, so this example in livedocs is what I'm trying to modify. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/external/ExternalInterface.html#includeExamplesSummary
However,it is not working correctly for some reason. The problem I'm encountering
is that it does not work in Safari and in Firefox, it only works if I put an alert
in the function before javascript pass the value to swf. (seems like it needs some time)
I also tried to set a timer in as3, but timer doesn't work, only alert in js helps.
All I wanted to do is use js to tell the swf file to play ep1.swf.
Here's my js code:
document.observe('dom:loaded', function() {
$('episode1').observe('click', function() {
var params = {wmode : "transparent", allowScriptAccess:"always", movie:"header"};
swfobject.embedSWF("swf/float.swf", "header", "100%", "100%", "9.0.0","expressInstall.swf", "", params, "");
sendToActionScript("ep1.swf");
});
})
function thisMovie(movieName) {
if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1) {
return window[movieName];
} else {
//alert("aaa")
return document[movieName];
}
}
function sendToActionScript(value) {
thisMovie('header').sendToActionScript(value);
}
Here's my as3 code:
private function receivedFromJavaScript(value:String):void {
loader.load(new URLRequest(value));
}
I've been trying for a really long time, does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.


The problem is that the SWF file isn't fully loaded by the time you try to call it. The flash player is probably loaded but it takes a while to load and initialise the swf file.
What you need to do is make a call from the SWF file to a javascript function when it's loaded and put your javascript there rather than in the page loaded handler that you seem to be doing now. That way you know that your flash application is properly initialized by then. The ExternalInterface class you are using has methods to let you call back into the javascript.


Use this code to get swf Object.
I tested this code on:
IE 9,8,7
Firefox 6.0.1
Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6
Opera 11.5
Google chrome 13.0.782.215
Safari 3.2 (All In Windows OS)
and it worked fine.
function GetSWF(strName) {
if (window.document[strName] != null) {
if (window.document[strName].length == null)
return window.document[strName];
else
return window.document[strName][1];
} else {
if (document[strName].length == null)
return document[strName];
else
return document[strName][1];
}
}


Summary of a success:
I am using AC_RunActiveContent.js, as set up by Flash when published.
My swf is called fvar_js, as seen below:
AC_FL_RunContent(
...
'src', 'fvar_js',
...
I STRESS this because I NEVER had to use a function like thisMovie
in the post above to point to the swf object. I was able to use
fvar_js straightaway (well, sort of, as you shall see).
In my as3 code I had the lines:
if (ExternalInterface.available) {
ExternalInterface.addCallback("js_to_as_f", js_from_as_f);
}
where js_from_as_f was a function that changed the text in a textfield.
In the HTML I set up the following:
var timeoutId;
var js_initiate_callback = function() {
// This is the swf object:
fvar_js.js_to_as_f();
clearTimeout ( timeoutId );
}
var reset_fvar_f = function(new_val) {
fvar_val = new_val;
}
//js_initiate_callback();
timeoutId = setTimeout(js_initiate_callback, 1000);
I tried 1ms and 100ms, but the results were spotty. With 1000ms
this worked in IE, FF and Safari on a PC. Have not checked on Mac OS X.
The key, evidently, is to allow all objects and all object connections
time to get set up. I have no idea what the minimum time is.

Related

Change content in iframe without reloading page with AJAX and Jquery [duplicate]

I would like to reload an <iframe> using JavaScript. The best way I found until now was set the iframe’s src attribute to itself, but this isn’t very clean. Any ideas?

document.getElementById('some_frame_id').contentWindow.location.reload();
be careful, in Firefox, window.frames[] cannot be indexed by id, but by name or index

document.getElementById('iframeid').src = document.getElementById('iframeid').src
It will reload the iframe, even across domains!
Tested with IE7/8, Firefox and Chrome.
Note: As mentioned by #user85461, this approach doesn't work if the iframe src URL has a hash in it (e.g. http://example.com/#something).

If using jQuery, this seems to work:
$('#your_iframe').attr('src', $('#your_iframe').attr('src'));

Appending an empty string to the src attribute of the iFrame also reloads it automatically.
document.getElementById('id').src += '';

window.frames['frameNameOrIndex'].location.reload();

Because of the same origin policy, this won't work when modifying an iframe pointing to a different domain. If you can target newer browsers, consider using HTML5's Cross-document messaging. You view the browsers that support this feature here: http://caniuse.com/#feat=x-doc-messaging.
If you can't use HTML5 functionality, then you can follow the tricks outlined here: http://softwareas.com/cross-domain-communication-with-iframes. That blog entry also does a good job of defining the problem.

I've just come up against this in chrome and the only thing that worked was removing and replacing the iframe. Example:
$(".iframe_wrapper").find("iframe").remove();
var iframe = $('<iframe src="' + src + '" frameborder="0"></iframe>');
$.find(".iframe_wrapper").append(iframe);
Pretty simple, not covered in the other answers.

Simply replacing the src attribute of the iframe element was not satisfactory in my case because one would see the old content until the new page is loaded. This works better if you want to give instant visual feedback:
var url = iframeEl.src;
iframeEl.src = 'about:blank';
setTimeout(function() {
iframeEl.src = url;
}, 10);

A refinement on yajra's post ... I like the thought, but hate the idea of browser detection.
I rather take ppk's view of using object detection instead of browser detection,
(http://www.quirksmode.org/js/support.html),
because then you're actually testing the capabilities of the browser and acting accordingly, rather than what you think the browser is capable of at that time. Also doesn't require so much ugly browser ID string parsing, and doesn't exclude perfectly capable browsers of which you know nothing about.
So, instead of looking at navigator.AppName, why not do something like this, actually testing for the elements you use? (You could use try {} blocks if you want to get even fancier, but this worked for me.)
function reload_message_frame() {
var frame_id = 'live_message_frame';
if(window.document.getElementById(frame_id).location ) {
window.document.getElementById(frame_id).location.reload(true);
} else if (window.document.getElementById(frame_id).contentWindow.location ) {
window.document.getElementById(frame_id).contentWindow.location.reload(true);
} else if (window.document.getElementById(frame_id).src){
window.document.getElementById(frame_id).src = window.document.getElementById(frame_id).src;
} else {
// fail condition, respond as appropriate, or do nothing
alert("Sorry, unable to reload that frame!");
}
}
This way, you can go try as many different permutations as you like or is necessary, without causing javascript errors, and do something sensible if all else fails. It's a little more work to test for your objects before using them, but, IMO, makes for better and more failsafe code.
Worked for me in IE8, Firefox (15.0.1), Chrome (21.0.1180.89 m), and Opera (12.0.2) on Windows.
Maybe I could do even better by actually testing for the reload function, but that's enough for me right now. :)

for new url
location.assign("http:google.com");
The assign() method loads a new document.
reload
location.reload();
The reload() method is used to reload the current document.

Another solution.
const frame = document.getElementById("my-iframe");
frame.parentNode.replaceChild(frame.cloneNode(), frame);

Now to make this work on chrome 66, try this:
const reloadIframe = (iframeId) => {
const el = document.getElementById(iframeId)
const src = el.src
el.src = ''
setTimeout(() => {
el.src = src
})
}

In IE8 using .Net, setting the iframe.src for the first time is ok,
but setting the iframe.src for the second time is not raising the page_load of the iframed page.
To solve it i used iframe.contentDocument.location.href = "NewUrl.htm".
Discover it when used jQuery thickBox and tried to reopen same page in the thickbox iframe.
Then it just showed the earlier page that was opened.

Use reload for IE and set src for other browsers. (reload does not work on FF)
tested on IE 7,8,9 and Firefox
if(navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer"){
window.document.getElementById('iframeId').contentWindow.location.reload(true);
}else {
window.document.getElementById('iframeId').src = window.document.getElementById('iframeId').src;
}

If you using Jquery then there is one line code.
$('#iframeID',window.parent.document).attr('src',$('#iframeID',window.parent.document).attr('src'));
and if you are working with same parent then
$('#iframeID',parent.document).attr('src',$('#iframeID',parent.document).attr('src'));

Using self.location.reload() will reload the iframe.
<iframe src="https://vivekkumar11432.wordpress.com/" width="300" height="300"></iframe>
<br><br>
<input type='button' value="Reload" onclick="self.location.reload();" />

<script type="text/javascript">
top.frames['DetailFrame'].location = top.frames['DetailFrame'].location;
</script>

If all of the above doesn't work for you:
window.location.reload();
This for some reason refreshed my iframe instead of the whole script. Maybe because it is placed in the frame itself, while all those getElemntById solutions work when you try to refresh a frame from another frame?
Or I don't understand this fully and talk gibberish, anyways this worked for me like a charm :)

Have you considered appending to the url a meaningless query string parameter?
<iframe src="myBaseURL.com/something/" />
<script>
var i = document.getElementsById("iframe")[0],
src = i.src,
number = 1;
//For an update
i.src = src + "?ignoreMe=" + number;
number++;
</script>
It won't be seen & if you are aware of the parameter being safe then it should be fine.

Reload from inside Iframe
If your app is inside an Iframe you can refresh it with replacing the location href:
document.location.href = document.location.href

If you tried all of the other suggestions, and couldn't get any of them to work (like I couldn't), here's something you can try that may be useful.
HTML
<a class="refresh-this-frame" rel="#iframe-id-0">Refresh</a>
<iframe src="" id="iframe-id-0"></iframe>
JS
$('.refresh-this-frame').click(function() {
var thisIframe = $(this).attr('rel');
var currentState = $(thisIframe).attr('src');
function removeSrc() {
$(thisIframe).attr('src', '');
}
setTimeout (removeSrc, 100);
function replaceSrc() {
$(thisIframe).attr('src', currentState);
}
setTimeout (replaceSrc, 200);
});
I initially set out to try and save some time with RWD and cross-browser testing. I wanted to create a quick page that housed a bunch of iframes, organized into groups that I would show/hide at will. Logically you'd want to be able to easily and quickly refresh any given frame.
I should note that the project I am working on currently, the one in use in this test-bed, is a one-page site with indexed locations (e.g. index.html#home). That may have had something to do with why I couldn't get any of the other solutions to refresh my particular frame.
Having said that, I know it's not the cleanest thing in the world, but it works for my purposes. Hope this helps someone. Now if only I could figure out how to keep the iframe from scrolling the parent page each time there's animation inside iframe...
EDIT:
I realized that this doesn't "refresh" the iframe like I'd hoped it would. It will reload the iframe's initial source though. Still can't figure out why I couldn't get any of the other options to work..
UPDATE:
The reason I couldn't get any of the other methods to work is because I was testing them in Chrome, and Chrome won't allow you to access an iframe's content (Explanation: Is it likely that future releases of Chrome support contentWindow/contentDocument when iFrame loads a local html file from local html file?) if it doesn't originate from the same location (so far as I understand it). Upon further testing, I can't access contentWindow in FF either.
AMENDED JS
$('.refresh-this-frame').click(function() {
var targetID = $(this).attr('rel');
var targetSrc = $(targetID).attr('src');
var cleanID = targetID.replace("#","");
var chromeTest = ( navigator.userAgent.match(/Chrome/g) ? true : false );
var FFTest = ( navigator.userAgent.match(/Firefox/g) ? true : false );
if (chromeTest == true) {
function removeSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', '');
}
setTimeout (removeSrc, 100);
function replaceSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', targetSrc);
}
setTimeout (replaceSrc, 200);
}
if (FFTest == true) {
function removeSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', '');
}
setTimeout (removeSrc, 100);
function replaceSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', targetSrc);
}
setTimeout (replaceSrc, 200);
}
if (chromeTest == false && FFTest == false) {
var targetLoc = (document.getElementById(cleanID).contentWindow.location).toString();
function removeSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', '');
}
setTimeout (removeSrc, 100);
function replaceSrc2() {
$(targetID).attr('src', targetLoc);
}
setTimeout (replaceSrc2, 200);
}
});

For debugging purposes one could open the console, change the execution context to the frame that he wants refreshed, and do document.location.reload()

I had a problem with this because I didnt use a timeout to give the page time to update, I set the src to '', and then set it back to the original url, but nothing happened:
function reload() {
document.getElementById('iframe').src = '';
document.getElementById('iframe').src = url;
}
but it didnt reload the site, because it is single threaded, the first change doesnt do anything, because that function is still taking up the thread, and then it sets it back to the original url, and I guess chrome doesnt reload because preformance or whatever, so you need to do:
function setBack() {
document.getElementById('iframe').src = url;
}
function reload() {
document.getElementById('iframe').src = '';
setTimeout(setBack,100);
}
if the setTimeout time is too short, it doesnt work, so if its not working, try set it to 500 or something and see if it works then.
this was in the latest version of chrome at the time of writing this.

This way avoids adding history to some browsers (an unneeded overhead). In the body section put:
<div id='IF'>
<iframe src='https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Memphis%20TN%20Temperature'
style="width:5in; height:6in" // or whatever you want in your Iframe
title'Temperature'></iframe>
</div>
Then in some JAVASCRIPT you may have a function like:
function UPdate() { // Iframe
T1=document.getElementById('IF')
T2=T1.innerHTML
T1.innerHTML=T2
}

How to reload an iframe in Javascript? [duplicate]

I would like to reload an <iframe> using JavaScript. The best way I found until now was set the iframe’s src attribute to itself, but this isn’t very clean. Any ideas?

document.getElementById('some_frame_id').contentWindow.location.reload();
be careful, in Firefox, window.frames[] cannot be indexed by id, but by name or index

document.getElementById('iframeid').src = document.getElementById('iframeid').src
It will reload the iframe, even across domains!
Tested with IE7/8, Firefox and Chrome.
Note: As mentioned by #user85461, this approach doesn't work if the iframe src URL has a hash in it (e.g. http://example.com/#something).

If using jQuery, this seems to work:
$('#your_iframe').attr('src', $('#your_iframe').attr('src'));

Appending an empty string to the src attribute of the iFrame also reloads it automatically.
document.getElementById('id').src += '';

window.frames['frameNameOrIndex'].location.reload();

Because of the same origin policy, this won't work when modifying an iframe pointing to a different domain. If you can target newer browsers, consider using HTML5's Cross-document messaging. You view the browsers that support this feature here: http://caniuse.com/#feat=x-doc-messaging.
If you can't use HTML5 functionality, then you can follow the tricks outlined here: http://softwareas.com/cross-domain-communication-with-iframes. That blog entry also does a good job of defining the problem.

I've just come up against this in chrome and the only thing that worked was removing and replacing the iframe. Example:
$(".iframe_wrapper").find("iframe").remove();
var iframe = $('<iframe src="' + src + '" frameborder="0"></iframe>');
$.find(".iframe_wrapper").append(iframe);
Pretty simple, not covered in the other answers.

Simply replacing the src attribute of the iframe element was not satisfactory in my case because one would see the old content until the new page is loaded. This works better if you want to give instant visual feedback:
var url = iframeEl.src;
iframeEl.src = 'about:blank';
setTimeout(function() {
iframeEl.src = url;
}, 10);

A refinement on yajra's post ... I like the thought, but hate the idea of browser detection.
I rather take ppk's view of using object detection instead of browser detection,
(http://www.quirksmode.org/js/support.html),
because then you're actually testing the capabilities of the browser and acting accordingly, rather than what you think the browser is capable of at that time. Also doesn't require so much ugly browser ID string parsing, and doesn't exclude perfectly capable browsers of which you know nothing about.
So, instead of looking at navigator.AppName, why not do something like this, actually testing for the elements you use? (You could use try {} blocks if you want to get even fancier, but this worked for me.)
function reload_message_frame() {
var frame_id = 'live_message_frame';
if(window.document.getElementById(frame_id).location ) {
window.document.getElementById(frame_id).location.reload(true);
} else if (window.document.getElementById(frame_id).contentWindow.location ) {
window.document.getElementById(frame_id).contentWindow.location.reload(true);
} else if (window.document.getElementById(frame_id).src){
window.document.getElementById(frame_id).src = window.document.getElementById(frame_id).src;
} else {
// fail condition, respond as appropriate, or do nothing
alert("Sorry, unable to reload that frame!");
}
}
This way, you can go try as many different permutations as you like or is necessary, without causing javascript errors, and do something sensible if all else fails. It's a little more work to test for your objects before using them, but, IMO, makes for better and more failsafe code.
Worked for me in IE8, Firefox (15.0.1), Chrome (21.0.1180.89 m), and Opera (12.0.2) on Windows.
Maybe I could do even better by actually testing for the reload function, but that's enough for me right now. :)

for new url
location.assign("http:google.com");
The assign() method loads a new document.
reload
location.reload();
The reload() method is used to reload the current document.

Another solution.
const frame = document.getElementById("my-iframe");
frame.parentNode.replaceChild(frame.cloneNode(), frame);

Now to make this work on chrome 66, try this:
const reloadIframe = (iframeId) => {
const el = document.getElementById(iframeId)
const src = el.src
el.src = ''
setTimeout(() => {
el.src = src
})
}

In IE8 using .Net, setting the iframe.src for the first time is ok,
but setting the iframe.src for the second time is not raising the page_load of the iframed page.
To solve it i used iframe.contentDocument.location.href = "NewUrl.htm".
Discover it when used jQuery thickBox and tried to reopen same page in the thickbox iframe.
Then it just showed the earlier page that was opened.

Use reload for IE and set src for other browsers. (reload does not work on FF)
tested on IE 7,8,9 and Firefox
if(navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer"){
window.document.getElementById('iframeId').contentWindow.location.reload(true);
}else {
window.document.getElementById('iframeId').src = window.document.getElementById('iframeId').src;
}

If you using Jquery then there is one line code.
$('#iframeID',window.parent.document).attr('src',$('#iframeID',window.parent.document).attr('src'));
and if you are working with same parent then
$('#iframeID',parent.document).attr('src',$('#iframeID',parent.document).attr('src'));

Using self.location.reload() will reload the iframe.
<iframe src="https://vivekkumar11432.wordpress.com/" width="300" height="300"></iframe>
<br><br>
<input type='button' value="Reload" onclick="self.location.reload();" />

<script type="text/javascript">
top.frames['DetailFrame'].location = top.frames['DetailFrame'].location;
</script>

If all of the above doesn't work for you:
window.location.reload();
This for some reason refreshed my iframe instead of the whole script. Maybe because it is placed in the frame itself, while all those getElemntById solutions work when you try to refresh a frame from another frame?
Or I don't understand this fully and talk gibberish, anyways this worked for me like a charm :)

Have you considered appending to the url a meaningless query string parameter?
<iframe src="myBaseURL.com/something/" />
<script>
var i = document.getElementsById("iframe")[0],
src = i.src,
number = 1;
//For an update
i.src = src + "?ignoreMe=" + number;
number++;
</script>
It won't be seen & if you are aware of the parameter being safe then it should be fine.

Reload from inside Iframe
If your app is inside an Iframe you can refresh it with replacing the location href:
document.location.href = document.location.href

If you tried all of the other suggestions, and couldn't get any of them to work (like I couldn't), here's something you can try that may be useful.
HTML
<a class="refresh-this-frame" rel="#iframe-id-0">Refresh</a>
<iframe src="" id="iframe-id-0"></iframe>
JS
$('.refresh-this-frame').click(function() {
var thisIframe = $(this).attr('rel');
var currentState = $(thisIframe).attr('src');
function removeSrc() {
$(thisIframe).attr('src', '');
}
setTimeout (removeSrc, 100);
function replaceSrc() {
$(thisIframe).attr('src', currentState);
}
setTimeout (replaceSrc, 200);
});
I initially set out to try and save some time with RWD and cross-browser testing. I wanted to create a quick page that housed a bunch of iframes, organized into groups that I would show/hide at will. Logically you'd want to be able to easily and quickly refresh any given frame.
I should note that the project I am working on currently, the one in use in this test-bed, is a one-page site with indexed locations (e.g. index.html#home). That may have had something to do with why I couldn't get any of the other solutions to refresh my particular frame.
Having said that, I know it's not the cleanest thing in the world, but it works for my purposes. Hope this helps someone. Now if only I could figure out how to keep the iframe from scrolling the parent page each time there's animation inside iframe...
EDIT:
I realized that this doesn't "refresh" the iframe like I'd hoped it would. It will reload the iframe's initial source though. Still can't figure out why I couldn't get any of the other options to work..
UPDATE:
The reason I couldn't get any of the other methods to work is because I was testing them in Chrome, and Chrome won't allow you to access an iframe's content (Explanation: Is it likely that future releases of Chrome support contentWindow/contentDocument when iFrame loads a local html file from local html file?) if it doesn't originate from the same location (so far as I understand it). Upon further testing, I can't access contentWindow in FF either.
AMENDED JS
$('.refresh-this-frame').click(function() {
var targetID = $(this).attr('rel');
var targetSrc = $(targetID).attr('src');
var cleanID = targetID.replace("#","");
var chromeTest = ( navigator.userAgent.match(/Chrome/g) ? true : false );
var FFTest = ( navigator.userAgent.match(/Firefox/g) ? true : false );
if (chromeTest == true) {
function removeSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', '');
}
setTimeout (removeSrc, 100);
function replaceSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', targetSrc);
}
setTimeout (replaceSrc, 200);
}
if (FFTest == true) {
function removeSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', '');
}
setTimeout (removeSrc, 100);
function replaceSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', targetSrc);
}
setTimeout (replaceSrc, 200);
}
if (chromeTest == false && FFTest == false) {
var targetLoc = (document.getElementById(cleanID).contentWindow.location).toString();
function removeSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', '');
}
setTimeout (removeSrc, 100);
function replaceSrc2() {
$(targetID).attr('src', targetLoc);
}
setTimeout (replaceSrc2, 200);
}
});

For debugging purposes one could open the console, change the execution context to the frame that he wants refreshed, and do document.location.reload()

I had a problem with this because I didnt use a timeout to give the page time to update, I set the src to '', and then set it back to the original url, but nothing happened:
function reload() {
document.getElementById('iframe').src = '';
document.getElementById('iframe').src = url;
}
but it didnt reload the site, because it is single threaded, the first change doesnt do anything, because that function is still taking up the thread, and then it sets it back to the original url, and I guess chrome doesnt reload because preformance or whatever, so you need to do:
function setBack() {
document.getElementById('iframe').src = url;
}
function reload() {
document.getElementById('iframe').src = '';
setTimeout(setBack,100);
}
if the setTimeout time is too short, it doesnt work, so if its not working, try set it to 500 or something and see if it works then.
this was in the latest version of chrome at the time of writing this.

This way avoids adding history to some browsers (an unneeded overhead). In the body section put:
<div id='IF'>
<iframe src='https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Memphis%20TN%20Temperature'
style="width:5in; height:6in" // or whatever you want in your Iframe
title'Temperature'></iframe>
</div>
Then in some JAVASCRIPT you may have a function like:
function UPdate() { // Iframe
T1=document.getElementById('IF')
T2=T1.innerHTML
T1.innerHTML=T2
}

Chrome extension to replace Twitter words

I'm trying to make a code extension that will replace one word with another on Twitter. There's code shared on GitHubfrom 2016 that says it should work, but is having no effect when I apply the extension in my browser. Can anyone help with the issue here? Has Twitter changed too much since this code was written for it to currently work, or is there another issue? When I upload the unpacked extension into Chrome it isn't detecting any errors, but I'm not getting any results.
(function() {
function replaceTwitterWord() {
var tweetContent = document.querySelectorAll(".tweet-text");
[].slice.call(tweetContent).forEach(function(el){
var newContent = el.innerHTML.replace(/OLD_WORD_NO_QUOTATION_MARKS/g,"NEW_WORD_IN_QUOTATION MARKS");
if (newContent != el.innerHTML) {
el.innerHTML = newContent;
}
});
}
function tick() {
replaceTwitterWord();
window.setTimeout(tick, 5000);
}
tick();
})();

Well, it seems like Twitter has changed plenty of things since then. At least there is no more elements having class '.tweet-text' so you have to get another tool.

SWFObject event undefined in Chrome works in IE

I want to get the currentFrame of my Flash movie when it is loaded. I followed the the tutorial found here http://learnswfobject.com/advanced-topics/executing-javascript-when-the-swf-has-finished-loading/index.html and SWFOBJECT CurrentFrame Javascript. I am using SWFObject 2.3 beta. This works perfectly fine on Internet Explorer however it does not work on Google Chrome.
In Chrome I get the error
Uncaught TypeError: e.ref.currentFrame is not a function
Checking e it returns [object Object]
Checking e.ref returns [object HTMLObjectElement]
Checking e.ref.totalFrames returns undefined
var flashvars = {};
var params = {};
var attributes = {};
function mycall(e){
setInterval(function(){console.log("Frame: " + e.ref.currentFrame)},1000);
}
swfobject.embedSWF("notmyswf.swf", "course", "100%", "100%", "6.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes, mycall);
Why is this not working on Chrome but works well with IE? Is the event e not detected? Is there a work-around on how to make this work on Chrome?
The purpose of this is for me to create a check if the user is really using the course he has opened and not just leaving it idle. I have already added a code that will check idle but it is not enough. Most learners, have figured out a way to just open a course, leave it there to accumulate hours of training. Some even have a program running in their computers that will just move the mouse 1-pixel every few seconds so that the computer does not go to idle. If I can check the current frame of the Flash movie, I can create a function that will calculate the current page the user is viewing every 15 minutes. If he is stuck in the same page I can then show a prompt that the user must click in order to continue viewing the course or it will automatically close.

I suggest dropping the SWF-based currentFrame approach in favor of monitoring your calls to the database using JavaScript. (Based on your comments, it sounds like the DB calls are being sent by JS, so this shouldn't be a problem.)
If the course bookmark is auto-saved every 3 minutes (as described in your comments), you can cache the value in your page's JS and do a compare every time the save is performed. If the value hasn't changed in x number of minutes, you can display your timeout warning.
If you're using a SCORM wrapper (or similar), this is really simple, just modify the wrapper to include your timer code. Something like:
//Old code (pseudocode, not tested)
function setBoomark (val){
API.SetValue("cmi.core.lesson_location", val);
}
//New code (pseudocode, not tested)
var current_location = "";
var activityTimer;
function disableCourse(){
//do stuff to disable course because it timed out
}
function setBoomark (val){
API.SetValue("cmi.core.lesson_location", val);
if(val === current_location){
//do nothing, timer keeps ticking
} else {
//reset timer using new bookmark value
if(activityTimer){ clearTimeout(activityTimer); }
activityTimer = setTimeout(disableCourse, 15000);
//Update current_location value
current_location = val;
}
}
This is a rough sketch but hopefully you get the idea.

I feel stupid!
It did not work in Chrome and Firefox because I used the wrong casing for the functions but in IE11 it works no matter the case.
So the correct functions are:
e.ref.CurrentFrame() //I used currentFrame() which still works in IE11
e.ref.TotalFrames() //I used totalFrames() which still works in IE11
e.ref.PercentLoaded() //I used this correctly and was able to get the value

What’s the best way to reload / refresh an iframe?

I would like to reload an <iframe> using JavaScript. The best way I found until now was set the iframe’s src attribute to itself, but this isn’t very clean. Any ideas?

document.getElementById('some_frame_id').contentWindow.location.reload();
be careful, in Firefox, window.frames[] cannot be indexed by id, but by name or index

document.getElementById('iframeid').src = document.getElementById('iframeid').src
It will reload the iframe, even across domains!
Tested with IE7/8, Firefox and Chrome.
Note: As mentioned by #user85461, this approach doesn't work if the iframe src URL has a hash in it (e.g. http://example.com/#something).

If using jQuery, this seems to work:
$('#your_iframe').attr('src', $('#your_iframe').attr('src'));

Appending an empty string to the src attribute of the iFrame also reloads it automatically.
document.getElementById('id').src += '';

window.frames['frameNameOrIndex'].location.reload();

Because of the same origin policy, this won't work when modifying an iframe pointing to a different domain. If you can target newer browsers, consider using HTML5's Cross-document messaging. You view the browsers that support this feature here: http://caniuse.com/#feat=x-doc-messaging.
If you can't use HTML5 functionality, then you can follow the tricks outlined here: http://softwareas.com/cross-domain-communication-with-iframes. That blog entry also does a good job of defining the problem.

I've just come up against this in chrome and the only thing that worked was removing and replacing the iframe. Example:
$(".iframe_wrapper").find("iframe").remove();
var iframe = $('<iframe src="' + src + '" frameborder="0"></iframe>');
$.find(".iframe_wrapper").append(iframe);
Pretty simple, not covered in the other answers.

Simply replacing the src attribute of the iframe element was not satisfactory in my case because one would see the old content until the new page is loaded. This works better if you want to give instant visual feedback:
var url = iframeEl.src;
iframeEl.src = 'about:blank';
setTimeout(function() {
iframeEl.src = url;
}, 10);

A refinement on yajra's post ... I like the thought, but hate the idea of browser detection.
I rather take ppk's view of using object detection instead of browser detection,
(http://www.quirksmode.org/js/support.html),
because then you're actually testing the capabilities of the browser and acting accordingly, rather than what you think the browser is capable of at that time. Also doesn't require so much ugly browser ID string parsing, and doesn't exclude perfectly capable browsers of which you know nothing about.
So, instead of looking at navigator.AppName, why not do something like this, actually testing for the elements you use? (You could use try {} blocks if you want to get even fancier, but this worked for me.)
function reload_message_frame() {
var frame_id = 'live_message_frame';
if(window.document.getElementById(frame_id).location ) {
window.document.getElementById(frame_id).location.reload(true);
} else if (window.document.getElementById(frame_id).contentWindow.location ) {
window.document.getElementById(frame_id).contentWindow.location.reload(true);
} else if (window.document.getElementById(frame_id).src){
window.document.getElementById(frame_id).src = window.document.getElementById(frame_id).src;
} else {
// fail condition, respond as appropriate, or do nothing
alert("Sorry, unable to reload that frame!");
}
}
This way, you can go try as many different permutations as you like or is necessary, without causing javascript errors, and do something sensible if all else fails. It's a little more work to test for your objects before using them, but, IMO, makes for better and more failsafe code.
Worked for me in IE8, Firefox (15.0.1), Chrome (21.0.1180.89 m), and Opera (12.0.2) on Windows.
Maybe I could do even better by actually testing for the reload function, but that's enough for me right now. :)

for new url
location.assign("http:google.com");
The assign() method loads a new document.
reload
location.reload();
The reload() method is used to reload the current document.

Another solution.
const frame = document.getElementById("my-iframe");
frame.parentNode.replaceChild(frame.cloneNode(), frame);

Now to make this work on chrome 66, try this:
const reloadIframe = (iframeId) => {
const el = document.getElementById(iframeId)
const src = el.src
el.src = ''
setTimeout(() => {
el.src = src
})
}

In IE8 using .Net, setting the iframe.src for the first time is ok,
but setting the iframe.src for the second time is not raising the page_load of the iframed page.
To solve it i used iframe.contentDocument.location.href = "NewUrl.htm".
Discover it when used jQuery thickBox and tried to reopen same page in the thickbox iframe.
Then it just showed the earlier page that was opened.

Use reload for IE and set src for other browsers. (reload does not work on FF)
tested on IE 7,8,9 and Firefox
if(navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer"){
window.document.getElementById('iframeId').contentWindow.location.reload(true);
}else {
window.document.getElementById('iframeId').src = window.document.getElementById('iframeId').src;
}

If you using Jquery then there is one line code.
$('#iframeID',window.parent.document).attr('src',$('#iframeID',window.parent.document).attr('src'));
and if you are working with same parent then
$('#iframeID',parent.document).attr('src',$('#iframeID',parent.document).attr('src'));

Using self.location.reload() will reload the iframe.
<iframe src="https://vivekkumar11432.wordpress.com/" width="300" height="300"></iframe>
<br><br>
<input type='button' value="Reload" onclick="self.location.reload();" />

<script type="text/javascript">
top.frames['DetailFrame'].location = top.frames['DetailFrame'].location;
</script>

If all of the above doesn't work for you:
window.location.reload();
This for some reason refreshed my iframe instead of the whole script. Maybe because it is placed in the frame itself, while all those getElemntById solutions work when you try to refresh a frame from another frame?
Or I don't understand this fully and talk gibberish, anyways this worked for me like a charm :)

Have you considered appending to the url a meaningless query string parameter?
<iframe src="myBaseURL.com/something/" />
<script>
var i = document.getElementsById("iframe")[0],
src = i.src,
number = 1;
//For an update
i.src = src + "?ignoreMe=" + number;
number++;
</script>
It won't be seen & if you are aware of the parameter being safe then it should be fine.

Reload from inside Iframe
If your app is inside an Iframe you can refresh it with replacing the location href:
document.location.href = document.location.href

If you tried all of the other suggestions, and couldn't get any of them to work (like I couldn't), here's something you can try that may be useful.
HTML
<a class="refresh-this-frame" rel="#iframe-id-0">Refresh</a>
<iframe src="" id="iframe-id-0"></iframe>
JS
$('.refresh-this-frame').click(function() {
var thisIframe = $(this).attr('rel');
var currentState = $(thisIframe).attr('src');
function removeSrc() {
$(thisIframe).attr('src', '');
}
setTimeout (removeSrc, 100);
function replaceSrc() {
$(thisIframe).attr('src', currentState);
}
setTimeout (replaceSrc, 200);
});
I initially set out to try and save some time with RWD and cross-browser testing. I wanted to create a quick page that housed a bunch of iframes, organized into groups that I would show/hide at will. Logically you'd want to be able to easily and quickly refresh any given frame.
I should note that the project I am working on currently, the one in use in this test-bed, is a one-page site with indexed locations (e.g. index.html#home). That may have had something to do with why I couldn't get any of the other solutions to refresh my particular frame.
Having said that, I know it's not the cleanest thing in the world, but it works for my purposes. Hope this helps someone. Now if only I could figure out how to keep the iframe from scrolling the parent page each time there's animation inside iframe...
EDIT:
I realized that this doesn't "refresh" the iframe like I'd hoped it would. It will reload the iframe's initial source though. Still can't figure out why I couldn't get any of the other options to work..
UPDATE:
The reason I couldn't get any of the other methods to work is because I was testing them in Chrome, and Chrome won't allow you to access an iframe's content (Explanation: Is it likely that future releases of Chrome support contentWindow/contentDocument when iFrame loads a local html file from local html file?) if it doesn't originate from the same location (so far as I understand it). Upon further testing, I can't access contentWindow in FF either.
AMENDED JS
$('.refresh-this-frame').click(function() {
var targetID = $(this).attr('rel');
var targetSrc = $(targetID).attr('src');
var cleanID = targetID.replace("#","");
var chromeTest = ( navigator.userAgent.match(/Chrome/g) ? true : false );
var FFTest = ( navigator.userAgent.match(/Firefox/g) ? true : false );
if (chromeTest == true) {
function removeSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', '');
}
setTimeout (removeSrc, 100);
function replaceSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', targetSrc);
}
setTimeout (replaceSrc, 200);
}
if (FFTest == true) {
function removeSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', '');
}
setTimeout (removeSrc, 100);
function replaceSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', targetSrc);
}
setTimeout (replaceSrc, 200);
}
if (chromeTest == false && FFTest == false) {
var targetLoc = (document.getElementById(cleanID).contentWindow.location).toString();
function removeSrc() {
$(targetID).attr('src', '');
}
setTimeout (removeSrc, 100);
function replaceSrc2() {
$(targetID).attr('src', targetLoc);
}
setTimeout (replaceSrc2, 200);
}
});

For debugging purposes one could open the console, change the execution context to the frame that he wants refreshed, and do document.location.reload()

I had a problem with this because I didnt use a timeout to give the page time to update, I set the src to '', and then set it back to the original url, but nothing happened:
function reload() {
document.getElementById('iframe').src = '';
document.getElementById('iframe').src = url;
}
but it didnt reload the site, because it is single threaded, the first change doesnt do anything, because that function is still taking up the thread, and then it sets it back to the original url, and I guess chrome doesnt reload because preformance or whatever, so you need to do:
function setBack() {
document.getElementById('iframe').src = url;
}
function reload() {
document.getElementById('iframe').src = '';
setTimeout(setBack,100);
}
if the setTimeout time is too short, it doesnt work, so if its not working, try set it to 500 or something and see if it works then.
this was in the latest version of chrome at the time of writing this.

This way avoids adding history to some browsers (an unneeded overhead). In the body section put:
<div id='IF'>
<iframe src='https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Memphis%20TN%20Temperature'
style="width:5in; height:6in" // or whatever you want in your Iframe
title'Temperature'></iframe>
</div>
Then in some JAVASCRIPT you may have a function like:
function UPdate() { // Iframe
T1=document.getElementById('IF')
T2=T1.innerHTML
T1.innerHTML=T2
}

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