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getURL problem

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pattyc

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Aug 15, 2006
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I'm using Flash Pro 8 on Win XP.

In my Flash document, I have made several empty movie clips that act like buttons. When one is clicked, I want a local file to be opened (might be a .txt file, for instance).

I set each movieclip's onRelease event to a function that just does:

getURL("file://c:/dev/flash/file.txt", "_blank");

If I do Control->Test Movie, it works - the file opens in a new browser window when I click the button. But when I run the html file in the browser (IE and Firefox), nothing happens when I click the button. I have noticed that getURL works with files that are in the same directory as the Flash files (url=" or url="/flash/file.txt"), but I need it to work with any file on my c drive.
 
Well it doesn't work on either browser for me.

Could this be a security issue in Flash 8?

Any suggestions?
 
Maybe it's not a Flash security issue because I added the folder for a particular doc in the security settings, and it still didn't open.

Could this be a browser security issue?
 
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