RE: FLASH: Another simple newbie question

[Chrissy Rey]

Well that could be the problem right there :)  I was assuming you were doing

this from the web.  Is it going to be in a projector?  If so, you might have

to do this a little differently.  I have found that Get URL works great at

opening HTML files in the projector, but it's not consistent when trying to

open other files.  You can get around this a few ways:


One way is to use "the BAT trick", which just means you make a BAT file to

open the PDF file in its default viewer, then refer to the BAT file in Flash

using the FS Command "Exec"  There's a tutorial for this at

http://www.flashlite.net/help/cd/f3/.  The problem with this solution is

that it's ugly (DOS window pops up).


A more elegant solution would be to use a product like JTools to open up the

file.  You can find out more about this at http://www.flashjester.com


Chrissy Rey

Instructor/Developer

Fig Leaf Software

creyfigleaf [dot] com

http://www.figleaf.com




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