Suppressing dialog boxes in the standalone player (was:Is there away to check the online status from an e xe without the error dialog?)

[Andries van der Leij]

Hello Flashers


I haven't had much response to my question and this is probably because I

wasn't that clear...


I want to load data into the exe from an online database or even a .txt

file. The problem with the standalone flash player is that when it gets a

command to load (variables from) an URL and the loading fails (when the user

is not online) it prompts the user with an irritating error dialog box like

you get with the online flash version that tries to load a "broken" link:


"The attempt to load "http://someserver/somefile.html" failed. "


And the user must push the OK button to get rid of this dialog box.


I want to check the online status (the user is connected to the internet at

the time that he is using the exe) WITHOUT the risk that he is prompted with

that annoying dialog box so that the projector can do one thing when he is

online and another when he isn't.


I know that there are more Flashers that had the same problem and I would be

very glad with a solution.


Thanks!


Andries van der Leij