RE: FLASH: projector addresses a browser

[Rey, Chrissy]

I too have asked about this before, and with the responses that I received, I am working on a solution :-)  So far I've been able to make a URL open with a BAT file, but only if I already know the path of the browser!  I am (hopefully) going to be working with a programmer sometime this week - we are going to see if there is a way to make an executable to call up the relative URL in the default browser...  (my HTML file will actually be on a CD, not on the net, but I think it would be easy to modify such a file to work in any case)  I will post here when we come up with a successful solution.  In the meantime, if anyone has been able to work this magic, I am sure there are a few of us who would be quite interested in learning the trick :-)


Chrissy



-----Original Message-----

From:	David Owen [SMTP:

david [dot] owensierra [dot] com

]

Sent:	Monday, September 21, 1998 8:21 PM

To:	'flasher(a)shocker.com'

Subject:	FLASH: projector addresses a browser


I know this may have been covered before so I apologize for any redundancy.

What I am trying to do is launch a web page from the Flash standalone

player.


I know that there is an FS Command:exec that will launch a browser if its

path is known. This is not an option since there is no way for us to know

the directory path of a browser on a given users machine.


My question is: if a browser is already open is there a way to do a "get

url" in the standalone player that will bring the browser to the front and

go to a web page. 


So far just using "get url" with a target window of  "_blank" does nothing.

Is this possible to achieve?


thanks

* Owen *



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