Re: FLASH: Opening explorer, and word documents with flash standalone

[Gregg Caines]

I haven't tried it, but Flash Jester JStart is supposed to be

able to do this.  If you're looking for something free, I wrote

a program a few months ago that should work:


www.neometrixsystems.com/cainus/runner.zip


The instructions are included in the ZIP file.

(Sorry, PC only)


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

>

> I'm trying to create the front end for a CD-ROM, and have the following

> problem.

>

> I wish to create two buttons, one to open explorer in the CD-ROM

directory,

> ie browse this CD, and one to open a word document. I seem unable to get

> word to respond, I'm not sure how flash standalone player handles calls

out,

> the file associations in windows don't seem to point this to Word.

>

> The following example doesn't work at all, thought the file system seems

to

> look for the file (notice this when calling the file from the floppy

drive,

> the drive kicks in but no file is opened.

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