Adobe Air parent frame bridge - iframe

I tried following the tutorial at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappshtml/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7f11.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118676a3fc7-7fea but just can't get it right.
I have an app with an iFrame. Dynamically loading into the iFrame are pages from a website. To ensure any links in these pages open in the local client browser, the iFrame content needs to call a function in the parent to launch the link as desired.
So the child iFrame needs to call the following function in the parent:
function openInBrowser(url) {
air.navigateToURL(new air.URLRequest(url));
}
How can I achieve this using the bridge technique?
Greg.

Ok, I guess the good old read the instructions worked! Although not in the above page, but a link from that page... ;(
I followed the tutorial at: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappshtml/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7e5c.html
and it worked very well!
Greg.

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Citing the entry from the FAQ section of the plugin's page:
Can I display web pages or HTML files in a FancyBox overlay?
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I took a blank WinJS Store app and placed the below code in default.html file
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You can use Iframe for some other sites,but you won't get full controll of their JS[Loading sites] ,may have to face some breaking point in such sites.
if you really want to load google try this,.
1. Make your default browser as IE10.
2. trigger an event.
function openYourLink(){
var url = new Windows.Foundation.Uri("http://www.google.com")
Windows.System.Launcher.launchUriAsync(url);
}
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The iframe is under my hand, so there is everything possible.
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EDIT1:
The code doesn't get injected in the iframe. Scenario:
The file "file.js" has a simple foo function in it. I now apply it with the above statement 2 seconds after the iframe was created and showed. This function foo is not available in the iframe...but is in the content script. The ReferenceError is thrown by trying to execute foo within the iframe (by click).
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EDIT2:
#serg
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PS: It's also possible to do it without "all_frames": true. It just takes some time till the dynamic iframe is ready. With a timeout it works. For the most cases, this is not useful, but maybe someone has another user interaction first.
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Here's a quick and hacky jquery-based example of the events page end of things:
<script type="text/javascript">
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{
$('#Menu').html(data);
}
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type : 'GET',
url : 'http://localhost/AjaxHandlers/Menu.ashx',
data : '',
success : RenderMenu,
});
});
</script>
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If for whatever reason you can't get the menu HTML in an isolated way, then you'll need to do some text processing in RenderMenu, but it's still do-able.
I am not a web expert, so don't shoot me.
Can't you just put their registration form into an iFrame in DNN ?

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