Linking an EXE file

[ninhovid]

Hi, i have my main menu in flash MX...
i have 3 options...
2 of them link to an html file... no problem with that...
but i want the 3rd botton to run an exe file (a computer system)...
i don't want Internet Explorer to ask me whether i want to open or save it to disk....
help me please!!! this is an emergency....
thanks a lot!!!

 

[oldnewbie]

fscommand and "exec"...

Read up on it here...

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/fscommand_projectors.htm

With MX, new restrictions apply... The fscommand subfolder, and batch file to open a specific file...

Regards,

I'm Bill Watson's biggest fan!

 

[ninhovid]

i didn't work...

i wrote this:
on (release) {
fscommand ("exec", "mysystem.exe"
}

and i have this:
c:/inetpub/

http://wwwroot

here is my swf
c:/inetpub/

http://wwwroot/fscommand

here i copied my system with its exe file

but it didn't work.. it doesn't do anything!!
help please....

 

[oldnewbie]

That's to be used with a projector file.

Regards,

I'm Bill Watson's biggest fan!

 

[ninhovid]

yeah, it worked...
but i want it as an SWF
is it imposible??
thanks a lot!!!

 

[GGROD]

I'm looking to do the same thing. What do you mean it is only to be used with a projector file? I can make a projector file from a swf file by using the Flash player. But when I try using the same code as above to execute the projector file (.exe) nothing happens.

 

[oldnewbie]

It doesn't work with a .swf, to my knowledge, but I'm not an instructor!
Thus if you create a projector from an .swf, rather than outputing the .exe from the application itself, than it makes sense that it wouldn't work also. Untested, but that's what I think!

Regards,

I'm Bill Watson's biggest fan!

 

[GGROD]

Which application outputs projector files? Director MX?

 

[ninhovid]

i think i'll have to do everything with Director MX... it has everything i need...
thanks....

 

[GGROD]

Ok I tried executing a projector file I created with Director. But the projector movie doesn't play until I shut down my flash movie. I'm thinking it is trying to use the same window to play the movies (Flash Player 6). Because when I close the flash movie the projector movie starts playing.

 

[oldnewbie]

Within the Flash application itself... File->Publish Settings-> Mac or Windows projector files. Publish!

Regards,

I'm Bill Watson's biggest fan!