making a cd with flash

[spiros]

Hello everyone :-)

This site has helped me a lot in the past but here is a question of which the answer i cant find.

I have made a cd interface using flash.

There are a few things though i dont know how to do.

How can a word document open when the user presses a button? (i dont want the "open or save" window warning...I just want the document to open on a separate -word- window)

Since all the files are going to be saved on a cd what do i type on the path ? (since some users have their cd drive on letter e: and some on letter d: etc)

I hope you can help me on these issues.

Thank you very much in advance.

[voodooboy]

Make your links relative instead of direct. (I.e. /files/word.doc instead of trying to figure d:\cd content\files\word.doc...) The links should be the same as if it were on the Internet.

Also if you have the autoplay script start the Flash movie itself instead of an .html document, the document link will open the file in Word. If you have the autoplay script start an .html document to play the flash, your flash will play in a browser instead of a Flash Player window. Then the link would open word functions into the browser and the document would be viewed through the browser instead of the Word application.

Hope this helps.

[spiros]

Thank you very much :-)

[Markll]

Unless the end user has the stand alone Flash player a swf will not play on its own. A cd presentation is best done with an auto run to a Flash projector file(player included). Disregard html and open links and files from the projector file.

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[voodooboy]

Unless the end user has the stand alone Flash player a swf will not play on its own. A cd presentation is best done with an auto run to a Flash projector file(player included). Disregard html and open links and files from the projector file.

Good catch. That is what I meant, just didn't come out right. :o)