applet question

[riffy]

Hi guys,

I hope everyone is doing well. I haven't posted in awhile because I had started medical school but I had to come home for a family emergency and have a temporary job. Anyway I have a question regarding applets using html. I'm posting the code below and I'll explain the problem after.

<applet code="fphover.class" codebase="../_private/" width="160" height="32">
  <param name="color" value="#000080">
  <param name="textcolor" value="#FFFFFF">
  <param name="effect" value="glow">
  <param name="hovercolor" value="#0000FF">
  <param name="font" value="TimesRoman">
  <param name="fontstyle" value="bold">
  <param name="fontsize" value="15">
  <param name="text" value="NovoPath Basics">
  [b]<param name="url" valuetype="ref" value="/Sword/NovoPath/Documentation/Novopath Tutorial/Private/Viewlets/Basic.viewlet/Basic.exe">[/b]
  <param name="target" value="_blank">
</applet>

My problem is in the bold line. The company I'm working for has viewlets as you can see for a tutorial for their product. However, if a shortcut is created to the tutorial off the server, say for example on the client's desktop, then the viewlet can not be seen because instead of the path being file://, an extra slash is inserted so the path reads file:///. Is there any way to get rid of that extra slash? Each client has the tutorial set on a server on their machine, but the only way the tutorial seems to work is if the drive is mapped. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Arif

 

[riffy]

just a clarification that the value in the url parameter has to be a relative path, not an absolute one as I have listed so something like:

../Viewlets/Basic.viewlet/Basic.exe

since the page calling the viewlet is in the same parent directory (Private) but different folder called pages

Arif