Dynamically change browser title in Flex application

[BlindFlashDeveloperJM]

In order to make my Flex application more accesible to those using screen reader software, I need to change the browser title bar text as the user selects different tabs. I thought I could use FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.pageTitle ="xxx" to to this or define a public function in the application MXML file and use topLevelApplication to call it.  However, this doesn't seem to work, the title bar is not changed. I am wondering if this requires flex 4.6 (I am currently using 4.5).  Any thoughts on how I might accomplish this would be appreciated.

[kiran1989 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Use BrowserManager to change to browser title and header text.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7cbb.html

[BlindFlashDeveloperJM]

Thanks! I’ll give this a try. I have also gotten some results from using the following code:

Public static function updateBrowserTitleBar(title:String):void

{

Var titleStr:String = “document.title=’” + title + “’”;

ExternalInterface.call(“eval(‘” + titleStr + “’)”);

}

But BrowserManager might be a much cleaner way of handling this.