Flash :: Opening Applications From Flash Projector

Opening Applications From Flash
Ok.

Here it goes. I would like to open applications from flash. Dont jump into conclusion, i want to open a external file, use fscommand and here it goess..my question is a bit different. I would like to open applications itself. say a click should open Acrobat reader. or yahoo messenger or wordweb.

Sometime back i got a roundabout of doing this by writing a ".bat" file with the tradtional dos way, but again that method only works for softwares or applications which has .dll files stored in the system. In case of utilities, or applications, which can be a drag-drop & run, that wont work.

Is there a way to open applications using fscommand from flash..or is there a 3rd party solution available.

Opening Other Applications From A Flash Movie
I would like to be able to open other files from within my movie. For example: open a word document in word not internet explorer, or open a powerpoint file from within the movie. I am creating a presentation on cd and would like to be able to store all files on the cd and open them from there.
Can anybody help???

Thanx

Paul

Opening External Applications In Flash MX
OK. I have developed a cd rom which has a button that links to an external database .exe file.
The client wants it to work an OSX, Mac system 9 and Windows XP.
Everything works except system 9.
the script i am using is:

On(release){
FSCommand("exe", "search classic.exe");

It works fine on the OSX and XP systems but not on system 9.

Any hep would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers

OPENING OTHER APPLICATIONS FROM A FLASH FILE
I was asked if it is possible to have a link(button) inside of a flash movie that when clicked can launch an exe. such as photoshop or notepad. I hope that made sense. If anyone could lend some knowledge on this I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Launching Applications With Flash Projector MAC
I am having problems launching email from my Flash projector on a MAC. I can launch a pdf file with using Applescript, but I'm not sure how to do it for email. Any and all help would be appreciated.

overdraft -

Opening Other Applications And Websites From Flash File,
Hi

Iam wanting to be able to launch an Install.exe file, a .pdf file and a URL from buttons inside my flash projector file. Currenly the projector file maximises to full screen so I need the files to launch in browsers ontop of the running flash movie.

Im guessing I need to use fscomands but not sure?????

please help as there is propably a straight forward answer and its driving me nuts!!!!!

Cheers

Jolly Chap

Opening Applications Using Flash Cs3... Need Fast Answer
in flash 8 you have to exec batch files to open programs, as far as i know...

im having tons of trouble doing this with flash 8, and concidering getting cs3 instead, but before i do this, i wanna know if cs3 can make flash exec applications like excel files or pdf files on local harddrive or on LAN...

and if this is doable, can i covert my flash 8 .fla file to a cs3, without any issues? at least not the design of the file...

can anyone please aid me with an answer?

Opening Applications
Hi,

1.I would like to know how i can open an application. I dont want an associated file which will open the parent / mother program [ say a .pdf file] instead, how can i open "Acrobat Reader" of the user's system.

2. How do i open .swf movies, without opening them inside the browser?

3. Is there a possibility of opening / loading files like .wmf , .ai & others like dynamic jpeg?

Opening Applications Using A Button
I need to use a button to open Windows Explorer - but how do I do it??

Opening External Applications
i'm sure you guys have answered this question before but...
i'm creating a Flash app that will be autostarted on a CDRom of games (solitare, etc). i want to be able to click on a button and start the game, but i haven't been able to find an ActionScript that does that.
i'm really new to all this, so please bear with me.

can anyone help???
thanks in advance,
miasma d'cur

Launching Applications From A Projector
hi there

anyone know how i can launch adobe acrobat from a flash projector - have tried getURL(filename.pdf) which works fine on a pic but not on a mac (it actually opens it in explorer)

appreciate any help

cheers

steve

Opening Files With Specific Applications.
Hello,

Ive got abit of a dilema. i have flash content that is fullscreen and needs to be shown at full screen, However i dont have the origonal fla any longer. I only have the swf file so i cant publish as a .exe projector,

I know you can open certain filetypes with there corresponding applications. However i was wondering if i could supply the flash player along with the presentation cd and when you click the link to open this swf in the main menu (also flash) it could specific to open the swf with the player thats located on say d:/player/flashplayer.exe

Is that possible?

Thanks
Copes

Opening An App Or Exe From A Flash Projector
Hi everyone:
How can I open a exe application from a flash projector. I am burning a project to a CD and I need (in AS3) to call out run an EXE when the user clicks a button.
I tried using the code below, but what it does is it prompts the user to either run or download. If the user clicks run, the prompts them that EXE are dangerous...blah, blah....How can I make the EXE run from the CD automatically when the user clicks on the "search" button without any notices (like other CDs do)?

I cant find this anywhere. I know in AS2 you can use fscommand, but I read on line that this is not supported anymore.
thank you for your help.

Rafael.

Attach Code

srch_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, focusOnSearch);

function focusOnSearch(event:MouseEvent):void
{
navigateToURL (new URLRequest ("search.exe"));
}

Opening A Director Projector From Flash
This is probably very simple, but how do I open a Director Projector at the end of a Flash movie? I want the Flash movie I created to play and then go right into a Director projector.

Please help.

Thanks

Opening A PDF File From FLASH MX Projector?
How can I open a PDF file from a FLASH projector.....I have tried the GetURL, and nothing..........hyperlink does not work either! Please help....gotta have CD rom presentation done in couple o dayz!

Thanks flashers!
DJ

Opening IE Windows From Flash Projector
Hi,
I have to open a browser window which has no scroll bar and in fullscreen mode from a flash projector. Is there any way of doing that. please help me out of this.

Opening The Flash Projector At The Center
How can I open the flash projector at the center of the screen?
Please help me!!!

Opening .pps File From Flash Projector
Hi,

I used this code

Code:
on (release) {
fscommand ("exec", "start APS_Guidelines.pps");
fscommand ("exec", "cmd /c APS_Guidelines.pps");
}

to open a powerpoint presentation from a flash projector in flash 5 but it doesn't work in FLash MX.

Can anyone help me out with this?
Thanks!

Opening A Director Projector From Flash
I need to make a button in flash that opens a director projector. My flash movie will be displayed in a browser window. It would be nice if it worked on both mac/pc platforms. Can anyone help please?
Thanks,
Patricia

Opening Director Projector From Flash
I need to make a button in flash that opens a director projector. My flash movie will be displayed in a browser window. It would be nice if it worked on both mac/pc platforms. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Patricia

Opening A Doc File From A Flash Projector
Hi all,

I have some problem opening a words document via flash projector.

Here the code i use

on (release) {
getURL("doc/unit1/LP.doc", "_blank");
}

It WORKS prefectly on my computer. Opening up the doc file in words and in the foreground.

But i recieve feedback that sometime it doesn't open up in the foreground, and sometime, it open up in Internet explorer instead.

Is there any solution that i can make sure it opened up in WORDS and in the foreground?

Thanks!

Opening A Doc File From A Flash Projector
Hi all,

I have some problem opening a words document via flash projector.

Here the code i use

ActionScript Code:
on (release) {
getURL("doc/unit1/LP.doc", "_blank");
}

It WORKS prefectly on my computer. Opening up the doc file in words and in the foreground.

But i recieve feedback that sometime it doesn't open up in the foreground, and sometime, it open up in Internet explorer instead.

Is there any solution that i can make sure it opened up in WORDS and in the foreground?

Thanks!

Opening A Flash Projector In The Center Of The Monitor
Hi,

I'm trying to mimic the look that you get when you export a projector in MM Director I.E. I want my flash movie to be centered in the moniter on top of a colored solid. I want it full screen but I don't want it to strech the content. It can strech the colored background but not the content. Any advice?

Thank you!!

Opening A Text Or Exe File In A Projector In Flash 8
sorry guys i know this is posted in the tutorial section but i dont understand it. I know there is a way to open text files and exe files in projector for a presentation im doing. I know there is a way to do it easy without a batch file using the geturl command. What i wanna know is ill be putting this ona cd however allt he files will be int he same directory as the projector file. What actionscript do i put ina button to open up this files when i click on them in the projection.

Thanks your helo would be appreciated

Projector: Opening Video Files Outside Of Flash?
I would like to open outside mpeg files from a projector file. e.g. have them run outside of the projector when a button is click inside the procjector.

I've tried fscommand("exec", ...) and it doesn't seem to work at all.

I've also tried getURL which seems to only work in opening the file when a browser window is already opened.

Is there a better way to fire up an outside video file from a projector file?

Opening Browser Window In Front Of Flash Projector
Hi all,

We are having problems opening the browser window in front of a full screen projector file. It does open the browser in front but only the very first time, if you then want to launch another browser window it will always stay behind the flash movie.

Can anyone help please.

Opening A Set-sized Browser Window From Flash Projector
Does anyone know how to open a correctly sized browser window from Flash projector? I would like to incude a link to an on-line web registration page from a CD.

Many thanks...

Opening Pdf Files And Word Documents From A Flash Projector?
I have Flash MX 2004 Pro (just got it)... and everybody I work with just updated to xp boxes, In the past I used Flash 5 to make Flash projector based CD-Roms to have an animated product menu that when a certin product is clicked on it would bring up a pdf file or a word document. I did this using batch files but now the xp boxes don't respond. Does anybody have any suggestions?

PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE:

confused:

Or another question would be Can you still write batch file for Windows XP? and if so where can I find out what the code is... because it is obviously different than Windows 98 and 2000..

Opening Windows From A Flash Projector File In Fullscreen Mode...
Greetings all, thanks in advance.

I've created a Flash file that is in the fullscreen Projector .exe format, intended for use as a demo CD. This Flash file is as an interface to materials on the CD, as well as external URL links.

All my links are coded with the getURL command, and seem to work fine. I click a button, and the applicable html or pdf page opens in front of the Fullscreen Flash. This occurs in every instance UNLESS there is already an IE window open. If there is another IE window open, the new link opens BEHIND the fullscreen flash, making it seem like the button is broken.

My client wishes the maintain the fullscreen mode, but I've been searching for a solution for this for a couple hours, and am getting a little frustrated.

Is there some sort of window.focus that I can use from within a Flash .exe? Any ideas?

Thanks again.

Opening A PDF From A Projector?
I'm trying to create a stand alone flash player that can launch a specific Acrobat PDF file. I'm a little new at Flash, and I'm trying to find the right action script.
I know the "FSCommand" (exec) can launch Acrobat but how do I get it to open the targeted PDF?
Help

Opening Pdf From MX Projector (CD-ROM)
I want to start a pdf file from a flash projector on a CD-ROM.
I don't know much about actionscript, components.
And I have no idea how to work Jtools???
Any simpler way to do this.
Needs to be crossplatform
On mac, I can use applescript...or can I?
For PC...I'm lost!

Opening A Projector From A Cd Rom
I am making a cd rom with three flash movies on it. They will all be projectors. I will write an autorun.ini file to get the main movie to run and then from that, the user will choose from the 2 other movies.

I need to have the user click on one of the choices and have it open that particular projector file and play it.

Thats it... its seems pretty simple, but...

Projector ? Opening From Swf.
Ok. I've done this before but in Flash 4. I haven't had a chance until now to need to use the exce function.

So. This is the code Im using

PHP Code:

on (release) {
fscommand("Exec", "test.bat");
}

the test.bat is in the same directory as the swf. I first started to have it like this:

PHP Code:

fscommand("Exce", "/Folder1/Folder1a/test.bat");

Whats wrong with both of them.. They dont work? am I missing something? I know I have the .bat file correct because I can run it by just clicking on the file in explorer.

Help?

MAC Projector On CD Opening A PDF
I need help. I am on a very tight deadline. I was hoping someone can help me with this. I have created a flash cd that has some links that open up pdf files. I am using the getURL command and it is working fine on pc but mac can not find file. Any help would be great. Thanks everyone.

ttiel

Opening A Projector Or Exe From A Projector Or Exe
Opening a projector or exe from a projector or exe?

Is this possible?

the project has some big embeded movies and the load time for the projector is really slow. I would like to have a smaal "loading" projector pop up which tells the main projector to open.

any ideas? Deadline tomorrow morn.

Thanks

Projector Opening A Projector
I know this is getting repetitive in the forums, but I still can't seem to get this ****e to work! Here's my intent, situation, and problem:

I am making a hybrid cd-rom portfolio. I have 4 folders; "Work" folder (where all of my .fla's are located), "MAC" folder (which contains all the information for the macintosh portion of the cd-rom), "ONLINE" folder (self explainatory) and "PC" folder (again, self explainatory). I have all of my .fla's publishing to the appropriate folders. The content in the MAC folder does not reference anything in the ONLINE or PC folder. The PC folder contains a projector that references all the files in the MAC folder, because that's just the way it was set up. There's only the AUTORUN file and a single projector file in the PC folder.

My "MAC" folder contains the topmost projector file and the "fscommand" folder. That topmost projector file determines which operating system the user is on, and opens up the appropriate projector file. The projector file, whether it be PC or MAC loads the appropriate .swf's which contain all the appropriate information for any given section. It all works.

The directory looks something like this:

MAC/fscommand/Data/ -content in the Data folder
sections/subsections

The .swf of interest here is called game_work.swf

In game_work.swf when I click on a button, it determines whether or not the portfolio is located on the web or not, and which operating system the user is on. Once it determines that, I have IF statments that tell it to open a projector file. That projector file is a game I made.

My question is this: I know how to do an fscommand.

fscommand("exec", ":E-Bug-Bomber"); <-- For Mac
fscommand("exec", "/E-Bug-Bomber.exe"); <-- For PC

I want to place the "E-Bug-Bomber" projector files in the "Data" folder. So the absolute path, beginning from the first projector file will be:

"fscommand/Data/E-Bug-Bomber"

How do I reference the file correctly? I'm thinking that since the secondary projector (the one that is being opened by the topmost projector) is where the game_work.swf is being brought to (because it's being brought into the main projector via loadMovie() function).

Opening A Projector With A Projector
Hello ladies and gentlemen!

I have a nice little problem and maybe someone out there can give me a hand. I'm trying to find some sort of a solution for getting one projector.exe to popup on top of another projector.exe.

I've got it up and running, but I need to position the window in a particular place (pretty much centered). Is there any way to open a projector and tell it where to draw the window??

thanks,
rami

Mac Projector Opening Another Mac Projector
how can you open a mac projector from inside another mac projector?

i hav tried fscommand but that doesnt seem to work

i need to have two mac projectors open at the same time

????

i have tried loadMovie, getURL and fscommand - no luck

Opening SWF Or Projector From Within SWF Or Projector?
I am working on my portfolio and planning on adding some links to flash projects. Trying to figure out how to open (seperately) another swf file or flash projector file from within my swf or flash projector file. I want to be able to open it and still have my portfolio file open.

I have had some experience with fscommands before, not sure if this is a way that it can be done.

Any ideas or words of wisdom??

Flash Projector In Full Screen & "get Url" Opening Behind
I have problem with Flash 5 Projector and "get url" function in full screen mode,
when clicking on the url link, it opens the html page behind the projector, even with "_blank" selected in the action script. When I do the same thing from within a browser, the html window popsup everytime I click on the link. I don't know what to do with this. Please help me.
Thanks

Opening Another Projector File
Hi there in flash 5 using fscommand you can open another projector...its works fine thats all good but I now have flash mx and it doesn't work. Is this a bug??? does anyone know why or a way around it. I can't go back to flash 5 now since the file is now saved in flash 6... and this is the only way it can work.

Opening A Projector File>>>>>>>
i'm trying to open a projector file from director, from flash. i created an interface in flash, and when the user clicks on a certain button, a project i created in director opens (exe file). any ideas???

Opening A Director Projector
I have created a projector for a director movie and I want it to load from a command in Flash. Can anyone tell me how this can be done?

Cheers

[F8] Opening PDFs From PC Projector (.exe)
Opening PDF file with PC Projector
Hello-

I have created a CD Presentation in Flash Professional 8 on a Mac running OSX 10.4.9.

Problem: I need to create a PC Projector (.exe) that has buttons that will link to and open up PDFs on the PC automatically when the buttons are clicked.

I have read that the FSCommand to open up an exec is not setup to open specific files, but rather, to open up applications. I have tried creating a .bat file that calls the PDF file, and then using a FSCommand to call the .bat file, but this doesn't seem to be working... the PC seems to looks for the file, but can't find it. I've read that you have to put the files into a subfolder called "fscommand" -- does this apply to both the .dat files and the .pdf files?

I also thought I could use a GetURL command to tell the PC's browser to open the PDFs, but I'm not sure if this is foolproof (especially since the presentation opens fullscreen, and I'm not sure if the browser will automatically open in a new window over top of the Flash projector screen).

Can anyone help me accomplish my goal? I need to get Mac specific instructions on how to create the PC projector files...

Thanks for any help!

Opening A PDF File From A Projector/SWF ?
I have this project that requires opening pdf's in acrobat reader that needs to be burned on a CD ROM as a self contained EXE. So I am designing this in flash with buttons that will open pdf's, then I'm exporting this as a swf and importing that into Director and then exporting it as an exe. Why you ask... it seems when I export the flash file as an exe, it needs flash player installed to open the exe. This project needs to be burned on a cd rom and as a stand alone player that will open pdf's in reader.

So my question; Is there an easier way to do this? and How?
2nd, what is the code to open a pdf file from a flash swf/projector in (A.) Acrobat reader or (B.) explorer.

please help...

Opening A Director Projector
Hello

Is it possible to open a director projector from a swf movie?
If so, could you please tell me how?
Thanks so much!

Opening A Pdf In A Browser With A Projector
this is the last question regarding this stupid CD (i hope). Thank you to all who helped me solve the email issue, the mailto command worked perfectly.

New issue is that i have 3 pdf's that have to open from within this CD-ROM. It is to be a cross platform CD, so im opening these pdf's from a browser with the getURL command instead of writing applescript & creating *.bat files to use with the fscommand in order to get Acrobat to open.

So far so good except my good friend firefox doesnt open these pdf's unless it's already open. if ff is open they open in a new tab. if ff is closed and the app has to open the browser, ff comes up with a blank screen (no errors, no tabs, just a plain white screen)

the coding on the buttons is pretty simple: (yes, i know, its not best practice but i'm trying to keep this as quick & easy as possible as it is a component of a larger entity)

Code:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("pdf");
getURL("business_plan.pdf", "_blank");
}

i defaulted every browser and firefox is the only one i have this issue with.