Flash :: GetURL And Windows XP/IE

GetUrl With Different Windows
I have two separate browser windows with a flash movie in one. The flash movie has several buttons for navigation in the other browser window. Well, that is how it is supposed to work, but I can only get it to open the url in the current browser (replacing the flash movie) or an entirely new browser. Is there any way to control the content of one window from another like you would if they were frames?

Thanks for the help.

GetUrl With Different Windows
I have two separate browser windows with a flash movie in one. The flash movie has several buttons for navigation in the other browser window. Well, that is how it is supposed to work, but I can only get it to open the url in the current browser or an entirely new browser. Is there any way to control the content of one window from another?

Thanks for the help.

GetUrl Opens Two Windows
the site i designed is fullscreen using a frameset to avoid scrollbars. i have buttons with geturl action. sometime 2 windows open. can this be?????

thanxxxx

GetUrl Opens Two Windows
I have a button which shoud open a new browser window wit getUrl("http://www.example.at", "blank"). Sometimes this action opens two windows. Can this be?????

any ideas

Resizing Windows With GetURL?
I have a small floating Flash banner (200x150) on a site which has a getURL button within. When a person clicks on the button, it leads to a larger page. I have the new page load in '_self' rather than '_blank' because there is no need to leave the banner around after they follow its link.

When they click on the button, it brings up the new page, but keeps the same size window--which isn't good because the majority of the information is not visible within the dimensions of the banner window. Is there anyway to insert a new window size in the GetURL?

GetURL Launching TWO Windows
I am creating a demo designed to run on a CD-ROM. In the demo is a button that when clicked should open a browser window and go to a specific site. I have been using just getURL to achieve this. Works great on PC but on the Mac it opens two windows (one window goes to my site, one to the default homepage).

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help!!

Customizing GetURL Pop Up Windows
I am using the getURL function to open a jpg in a new browser window, which works fine.

on (release){
getURL("images/picture.jpg", _blank);
}

However, I desperately want to customize the browser window that pops up so that it has no menu or toolbars, and I wish to have it sized to fit my image(s).

I was wondering if anyone knew a way this can be done. I've found out many ways to do this opening from an html page ( window.open(blah blah) ), but I can't figure out how to spawn a customized pop-up from within an swf.

If anyone could help or give some suggestions, I would be very greatful.

GetURL Does Not Work In IE6 On Windows XP
Hi there,

I have a flash movie with with thumbnails using

Code:
on (release) {
getURL("javascript:MM_openBrWindow('showroom_1.html','popWindow','width=490,height=490,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no')");
}
to launch a pop-up window.

I have made this site with Flash MX on Mac. This works fine on Mac but when I tested it with IE6 on Windows XP I get "URL not found" message in the same window without any pop-up window. This sound like the browser concerned is not reading javascript within the function. Does anyone know how to correct this?

Rio

GetURL Actionscript For Pop-up Windows
I have been attempting to create a Flash file which incorporates buttons that will open up pre-sized windows. I have researched this on Macromedia's site and followed their tech note: 14192 (I'm not to the point where I'm ready to write my own script)

This is the process I followed - I am certainly overlooking something simple because this script is not that intense.

Within Flash I added the following actionscript to the button (I'm testing this out on only one button until I get it to work)

on (release) {
getURL("javascriptpenNewWindow('http://www.premierbaseballschool.com','thewin','height=300,width=400,toolbar=no,scrol lbars=yes') ");
}

the syntax checks out okay

I publish this "Flash Only" to my root directory on my personal server

I insert the Flash file into my PHP document and add the following script to the HEAD

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript>
function openNewWindow(URLtoOpen, windowName, windowFeatures) {
newWindow=window.open(URLtoOpen, windowName, windowFeatures);
}
</SCRIPT>

When I open the web page the Flash file runs as intended, but the button does not fire (open up the pop-up window).

?? - seems I'm missing something here, but have yet to find my error - a second pair of eyes may see the error in my ways. -- Thanks! Les

GetURL Opening 2 Windows
hello everyone.

i just added a blog to my site with a buttom symbol to get to it. When I test my page everything works fine, but when I upload it to the server when I go to the site it loads two pages of my blog page and the second one is the wrong address. it takes the web address and doubles it. Is there someone who can help. Thanks a bunch

http://www.scotlandorbust.com

GetURL Local File (windows) ?
Hiho

getURL("file://c:/bla.lnk");

I want to call a windows .lnk file but i will be asked to
open or to save. Can I do it without notification ?
[Edited by borisp on 07-04-2001 at 11:15 AM]

Opening New HTML Windows With GetURL
i am trying to open a new window using the getURL command. I can do it using the _blank and it will open the URL in a browser window.. however, I do not know how to make the size of the window a certain size... can i specify the width and height of the new window that i am opening up? any help would be appreciated.

Disabling GetURL POST To Windows
I have a form that submits standard a form questionaire (name, email, phone, address, etc.) to a ASP file. Unfortunately during the submission the link either changes to the ASP file (if I set the target to _self or "") or to a new window (if I set the target to _blank). How do I keep the URL from changing? Thanks!

GetURL, _blank, Force New Windows?
Hi,

I am using this code to open a new window:

on(release){
getURL('http://www.domain.co.uk/',_blank);
}

In the new window/ site I also have a flash movie which has:

on(release){
getURL('http://www.domain_two.co.uk/',_blank);
}

but this opens in the same window, and NOT another new window (_blank)

How can I make the buttons ALWAYS open in a new window.

Many many thanks,

Ben.

Help - GetURL, FSCommand, Javascript (not About Pop-up Windows)
There seems to be like 8000 threads on how to make pop-up windows. This isn't one of them.

I'm working on an eLearning program that uses SCORM. All of the stuff out there makes use of FSCommands to communicate with the Learning Management System, which is worthless on the Mac. I know you can use getURL to access javascript functions. I've already tested that, and simple things work fine (like popping up an alert).

I need help with implementing the specific stuff here. It's more complicated than a simple alert or pop-up, and I'm getting nowhere. Any hints would be appreciated.

Setup:

Javascript fragment: (the function name and "LMSSetValue" are the important things.) This is straight from the macromedia template you get when you publish a flash file with the SCORM tracking html.

Code:
function Loader_DoFSCommand(command, args){
var LoaderObj = g_bIsInternetExplorer ? Loader : document.Loader;
// no-op if no SCORM API is available
var myArgs = new String(args);
var cmd = new String(command);
var v = "";
var err = "true";
var arg1, arg2, n, s, i;
var sep = myArgs.indexOf(",");
if (sep > -1){
arg1 = myArgs.substr(0, sep); // Name of data element to get from API
arg2 = myArgs.substr(sep+1) // Name of Flash movie variable to set
} else {
arg1 = myArgs
}
if (!APIOK()) return;
if (cmd.substring(0,3) == "LMS"){
// Handle "LMSxxx" FScommands (compatible with fsSCORM html template)
if ( cmd == "LMSInitialize" ){
err = (APIOK() + "")
// The actual LMSInitialize is called automatically by the template
}else if ( cmd == "LMSSetValue" ){
err = SCOSetValue(arg1,arg2)

The normal FSCommand actionscript function:

Code:
function apiSetScore(nMin,nMax,nRaw) {

fscommand("LMSSetValue", "cmi.core.score.min," + nMin);
fscommand("LMSSetValue", "cmi.core.score.max," + nMax);
fscommand("LMSSetValue", "cmi.core.score.raw," + nRaw);

}

The getURL I'm trying to replace the FSCommands with:

Code:
getURL("javascript:Loader_DoFSCommand('LMSSetValue', 'cmi.core.score.raw,' + nRaw)");

I'm definitely hitting my apiSetScore function fine. I put an alert javascript in there and that works. But the DoFSCommand is not doing anything. I really need some help guys!

HELP GetURL Results Twice Opening Of Windows
Hi there,
I'm working in a big firm with big team. We have many links to browse daily, internally through a server to open the files and work. To make it easy for the team, I have designed a small tool, something like favorite links and gave all the urls. Now comes the problem. I used the get URL function. The getURL function works but it is coming in twice, in two windows like a repeatition.
The problem is the getURL is actually working as per its defined function, it is opening in browser. And at the same time, as per the script, it is also opening from the server too. So two ways it is working. But I need to get the result only in one window. Either in browser or in normal window.
Please help!!! Example of my link is given below:
on(release){
getURL("R:/abc/123/xyz/files", "_blank");
}
If I open in html the link is working only one time. But published exe is resulting in two windows for getURL function.
Is it because of the internal server?
Is there any alternative way similar to getURL?

Opening Pop Up Windows With A Variable Passed To GetURL
Hi,

I have a flash movie that opens separate pages with a url defined by the variable url:

the code looks like:

url="http://www.mydomain.com/"+var1+"/"+var2
getURL(javascriptpenNewWindow(url,'winname','hei ght=408,width=800,left=0,top=0,toolbar=No,location =No,scrollbars=No,status=No,resizable=No,fullscree n=No')

in the html file I have the openNewWindow function defined by:

function openNewWindow(URLtoOpen, windowName, windowFeatures) {
newWindow=window.open(URLtoOpen, windowName, windowFeatures); }

my question is - it doesnt work, but it does if I hardcode the url instead of using the variable. Can anyone help?

thanks

Kevin

Popup Windows Won't Open With GetURL Javascript On Some Pc's
i started using javascript popup windows inside my actionscript in MX2004 pro like this;

getURL ("javascript:windowName=window.open('clipLoad','ne wWin','width=x,height=y,left=0,top=0,
toolbar=No,location=No,scrollbars=No,status=No,res izable=No,fullscreen=No'); windowName.focus();void(0);");

it works fine for me and loads of other people, but on some systems (mac and win), nothing happens. the systems it didn't work on don't have brutal popupblockers.

help. cheers

[F8] GetURL Opens Multiple Browser Windows
Hi! I'm on a time crunch and I'm not sure if I'm in the right place or not. But I have a movie that was working just fine. I added one link and now, when I click my buttons it opens the external website 3 times. i.e. when I click button 1 it opens the URL for button 1 in 3 seperate windows. Anybody had this problem and know how to fix it?? Here is my actionscript...Thanks!

btn1_btn.onRollOver= function(){
myScreen_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
}

btn1_btn.onPress = function() {
getURL("art/index.html","_blank");
}

btn2_btn.onRollOver= function(){
myScreen_mc.gotoAndStop(2);
}

btn2_btn.onPress = function() {
getURL("smoosh/index.html","_blank");
}

btn3_btn.onRollOver= function(){
myScreen_mc.gotoAndStop(3);
}

btn3_btn.onPress = function() {
getURL("collage/dream.html","_blank");
}

btn4_btn.onRollOver= function(){
myScreen_mc.gotoAndStop(4);
}

btn4_btn.onPress = function() {
getURL("Napoleon/index.html","_blank");
}

btn5_btn.onRollOver= function(){
myScreen_mc.gotoAndStop(5);
}

btn5_btn.onPress = function() {
getURL("http://www.lynnsschoolofdance.com/","_blank");
}

btn6_btn.onRollOver= function(){
myScreen_mc.gotoAndStop(6);
}

btn6_btn.onPress = function() {
getURL("javajoes/index.html","_blank");
}

btn7_btn.onRollOver= function(){
myScreen_mc.gotoAndStop(7);
}

btn7_btn.onPress = function() {
getURL("Flash/cow7.html","_blank");
}

btn8_btn.onRollOver= function(){
myScreen_mc.gotoAndStop(8);
}

btn8_btn.onPress = function() {
getURL("leather/index.html","_blank");
}

btn9_btn.onRollOver= function(){
myScreen_mc.gotoAndStop(9);
}

btn9_btn.onPress = function() {
getURL("http://www.touringfans.com/index3.html","_blank");
}

[Flash8] .send And GetURL Open Two Windows
Hi everyone,
I really hope you can help me with this.
I have a Flash form sending variables to an ASP script (bono.asp) in order to print a discount bonus. The bonus grafic is then shown in a new window for the user to print with his/her data on it. (name, address, etc).

Well, the problem is that it not only opens a new window with the bonus (without the data ), it also opens the bonus in the current window (with the data), forcing the user to "go back" to the flash website and loading the entire animation again.

This is the code in the Flash form asociated to the Button:

on (release){
variables = new LoadVars();
variables.nomclub=nombreclub.text
variables.cedclub=cedulaclub.text
variables.telclub=telefoclub.text
variables.mailclub=emailclub.text

//send variables to basedatos.asp, to put data in the company DB
variables.send("basedatos.asp", "", "POST");

//send variables to bono.asp, to show the bonus with the data
variables.send("bono.asp", "", "POST");

var targetUrl:String = "bono.asp";
getURL(targetUrl, "_blank");

}

In the ASP file (bono.asp) all I do is Request the variables and put them in the proper place.

Hope you can help me, thank you in advance

Using GetURL To Activate Windows Media Player Events
I am attempting to use javascript functions to control an embeded Windows Media player through a flash strip containing buttons.

The command that I'm currently using
on (press) {
getURL ("javascript:document.MyWindowsMedia.Play();");
}

attempts to reload the video.

On my graphical buttons I am using the following Link.

< a href="#" onclick="document.MyWindowsMedia.Play();"

What would be the flash equivilent(sp) command for the HTML above?

Multiple Windows Open With "getURL"
Hi there-

I'm using getURL("http://www.hotmail.com", "_self");

...to open a new window when the target is clicked. My problem is that even the briefest of clicks (I know, all are usually pretty brief...) opens at least 3 windows with the same Hotmail address. If I click another 1 or two times, I've got 10, 15, 20 window that are open. What's going on?

Thanks in advance for any help / ideas!

Jens

Problem In Running A Flash MX-2004 Application On Windows 98 Adn Windows NT.
Hi all
I have this problem ......here it goes.....
Actually I developed a Flash MX-2004 application which has to run on both mac and windows platforms.
This application does the funciton of a dictionary and has 46 xml files and close to 13000 sound files.
This application runs fine on most Windows platform, however it doesnt work on Windows 98 and Windows NT where though the intro animation comes & the home screen loads....the application part of the program doesnt load.

Why is this so??? I am totally clueless...please help....
Do I have to make the intro and exit animations as separate swf files adn call them????
Please help....

Flash Popup Adverts/windows That Aren't Windows
Hi there

Just wondering if anyone knows any links to tutorials to make those flash adverts you find on websites? They are actual popup windows but flash boxes that appear above a webpage.

I think they use div layers as well as some flash? But im not sure where to find a tutorial!

For an example visit:

http://www.channel4.com/4car/news/index.jsp

(you might need to click on several pages down the left to get one to appear)

Any help on this would be a great help.

Thanks

Is It Possible To Make Windows Icons For Windows Xp With Flash Mx?
I have gotten bored of the simple icons that you automaticly get... and I wondered if its possible to make my own! Is it?

How To Create 'Windows' Windows With Flash?
I'd like to create a windows system like the one we use on windows. This is what i really like:
Yo have some buttons. When u click on any of 'em a popup window opens (inside could be text, image or movieclips or all of 'em). Last window it opens always shows up on top and if u select one that it's behind this comes automaticly to the top. I'd love too if u could minimize 'em and also if eacho one opens into a new swf.
There is a example of what I want here:
http://senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.49
But in that example everything is in the same swf, and as I said some lines before I want each window to open into another swf.

...........hope u can help me. Thanks!

Windows Emulator.... Having Trouble With Minimizing The "windows".
I'm creating a website that will behave kinda' like Windows. I have a basic menu that when you click on an option, a window will open up. You can drag the windows and close them. However, I'm having trouble with the minimizing part.

Lets say that I have 3 "windows" (each is a movie clip) called "win1", "win2", and "win3". Each window has an instance of a minimize button. When you click the button, the window should minimize to the bottom of the screen, and line up in the order that it was minimized in (just like Windows). I figured out how to get them to minimize, but I can't get them to sort themselves correctly.

Lets say that I just minimized all three windows in this order:
win1, win2, win3

Now, if I click on win1 to maximize it, I want win2 and win3 to shift over to the left to take the place of win1. Then, if I minimize win1 again, it should go to the end of the row. Resulting in this order:
win2, win3, win1

Does anyone know of any code that I could make these windows sort themselves when they are minimized and maximized?

Thanks!
Lee

Interesting Issue With Flash And Windows - Flash Start With Windows?
Hey guys,
I'm programming a flash application that would run on a user's desktop (using MDM or similar programs to convert to a transparent background EXE).
My client would like to have the users select weather they want to application to start with windows or not. I would like to know how to make my flash application start with Windows without manually adding it (the users won't have to add it to the startup folder themselves). Can flash write to the registry? Can a third party program do it for me? The client wanted to EXE to run without an installation. Thank you very much!
Yuval Karmi

New Windows And Dragabel Windows
Right im new to flash and i need to know how to create a new window inside flash and how to make them dragable

Windows To Mac To Windows Problem
I'm a Mac user and I'm working on a large project with a client who is using Windows XP. My client is creating some Flash content in Windows and then sending the .swfs to me to incorporate into the site.

These files play fine on my computer. I upload them to my web server and my Windows-based clients are able to view them over the web. However, if I email the .swfs back to my client, they won't run on the Windows computer. This is a problem, since it's my client who will ultimately be hosting the site.

There is no problem with .swfs that I publish on my computer and then email to my client.

Any ideas?

GetURL Or Not GetURL That Is The Question ...
Hi, please bear with me as I'm not a Flash programmer so am stumbling around here.

I have a SWF which uses a GetURL to pass a variable into the address bar. The problem is the variable it needs to pass is required by the existing form the SWF is embedded on. For reasons I won't bore you with I can't simply reload the form etc so the problem is of course GetURL opens a new page and in so doing loses the form I need the variable to be passed in to.

My question is this therefore - is there an equivalent command like geturl which puts a value in the url bar but DOESN'T activate it i.e. as if you didn't hit go/return in the browser OR a way to stop getURL from loading the "new" page?

Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance for any help ...

Launching Flash Windows From Flash Windows
Please can someone help me.

I am trying to create my own personal portfolio on cd. The main interface is a swf and contains a list of buttons (which are the titles of my work). When these buttons are pressed I want to launch a new flash window ontop of the existing one containing the piece of work.

I have looked at javascript popup windows using dreamweaver but have had no luck. I don't know whether this is because you have to use http's or that im thick and have no knowledge of javascript.

If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. I am using Flash MX if it makes a difference. If the solution is using javascript or html can please explain it to me like a 5 year old because I don't know what im doing.

Cheers
Cokey

Loading Flash Windows Projector From Another Flash Windows Projector
I am trying to make the button in my movie load another movie, but I am playing the flash in windows projector, is it posable that you can load a flash windows projector from windows projector, I tried it and had trouble, here is what I had for the action script:

Movie 1 button action script:

on (release) {
loadMovieNum("Movie 2.exe", 0);
}

When I had it as Movie 2.swf it works fine, is it possable to make a .exe to work?

New Windows
I need to open a new window (800x80pxl) at the frame 2, just below the one is showing, can anyone tell me how to do it?

POP UP WINDOWS ?
HOW DO YOU ADD THE PROPERTIES OF A POP UP WINDOW ONTO A BUTTON. IN OTHER WORDS IF I WANT A BUTTON TO POP UP A SPECIFIC SIZE HTML POP UP HOW DO I DO THAT?
THANKS!

Pop Up Windows
how could i do this

<ONCLICK="window.open('http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/Squall/medRandy2.jpg', 'Sample', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,m enubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,copyhistory= yes,width=330,height=220')">

using flash... i have the small thumbnail picture and all that on flash, but how do i add this code? i dont want the pop up to be in flash i just want it in html..
thanks for your help

Help In Pop Up Windows
I am looking to find a tutorial in pop up window that come up in a separte window than the main page,.. HELP PLEASE

Pop Up Windows
Hi everybody,
I'm going crazy trying to understand how to make this "simple thing" possible.

I have to open, at button release, a new browser
window, with a certain size, without status bar,
with a certain content and so on.

In Html there's no problem at all there's thousand's of javacode for this.
The problems start with flash:
I can use geturl but How I can directly tell the browser
to open a window with the desired dimensions?
For the moment I can open a blak window with the javacode
that opens a third window (the one I desire).
Not so elegant don't you think?

Thanks in advance

Windows Xp
does any one know how to fix the problem of load movie comeing up behind a standalone player in windows xp and I think it does it in windows me also.

Pop Up Windows
I have been working on updating a website I did about 6 months ago. The client wants to have pop up windows of some of the tattoos that don't show up very well at a max hieght or width of 300 pixels. Doing the pop up is no problem. The problem is that I don't know how to set the size of the pop up window in Flash. I don't want a whole new page to open and have a bunch of empty space around the image. If someone could fill me in on the code for Flash 4, or 5, I would appreciate it. The whole site is in Flash and need to have this functionality in Flash. If you want to check it out, its http://www.alienartstattoo.com

It works best on broadband connections.

thanks for any and all help

Pop Up Windows
on http://www.3rdillusion.com/ how do you do the cool popup thing where it says launch 3i chromless, or the fullscreen one??

Pop-up Windows
Hi. I need a little help with Pop-up windows. Here's my situation - I am running my website from one main html document, loading my movie from there. Each section of my website is simply just loaded and unloaded movie clips. Now... In my portfolio section...I call up a movie into level 2 which basically just displays my thumbnails. I want to set up the links so that the thumbnails will open individual little pop-up windows. Now I have tested the pop-up code on my root movie. It works. But it wont work on the loaded movie which is sitting on level 2. Is that my problem - You can only do it from the root level 0? Is it a publishing problem?

Thanx,
Doug

Pop Up Windows
ANy idea how to coordinate pop ups?? I mean I want to open a new window on the right side of the page.

can you guys help???

J

Pop Up Windows
ok.....im wanting to create a few pop windows from my flash movie, im using javascript and i dont want to use smart clips...What im currently using doesnt seem to be working can to firgure out what ive done wrong..

In the html i have this code in the header..

<SCRIPT language=javascript type=text/javascript>

</SCRIPT>

And the script i have on my button in flas is...

on (release) {
getURL ("http://www.flashkit.com", "NewWindow(this.href,'name','425','430','no','no') ;return false");
}

what have i done wrong

hope u can help

Pop Up Windows
i have a few links in the gallery section on my flash movie.
on clicking these links i want a new window to open up with the related htm page.
however i want the scripting in such a way that...
a new browser window(say window "x") should open the first time i click on any link(say link "x") on the gallery section.
but when i click on any second link(say link "y") in the gallery section then it should not open a new browser window - rather it should refresh the previous previous browser window "x" to window "y" with the item related to link "y" now being displayed.
can anyone plz help with this bit of scripting.