Is it possible to drag and drop from/to outside a Flash applet with JavaScript?

Question

Let\'s say I want a web page that contains a Flash applet and I\'d like to drag and drop some objects from or to the rest of the web page, is this at all possible?

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Answer 1

DISCLAIMER I haven't tested this code at all, but the idea should work. Also, this only handles the dragging to a flash movie.

Here's some Actionscript 3.0 code which makes use of the ExternalInterface class.

import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;

if (ExternalInterface.available) {
  ExternalInterface.addCallback("handleDroppedImage", myDroppedImageHandler);
}

private function myDroppedImageHandler(url:String, x:Number, y:Number):void {

  var container:Sprite = new Sprite();
  container.x = x;
  container.y = y;
  addChild(container);

  var loader:Loader = new Loader();
  var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
  loader.load(request);

  container.addChild(loader);
}

Here's the HTML/jQuery code