Flash :: Using Flash To Eject Cd Drive ?

External Drive/flash Drive
Ok. This might be a "duh" question, but here it goes: Is it possible to use an external drive as a flash drive? Using it to save pictures on and/or Word documents. Stuff like that. And also, would it require any installation when JUST using it for Word docs. and pics? I would like to use it for school and I'd like be able to store a LOT of things because I'd like to keep all the documents I put on it. Thanks for any help you can get me. If you have any specific comments/replies then you can e-mail me at three_days_grace_psycho@hotmail.com If you DO e-mail me, please, in the subject heading, put external drives, flash drives, or anything else that I can tell what it is about and I don't skip it. Thanks again.

How To Access A Drive (A Drive) Through Flash?
Does anyone know how to access a drive (A drive) through flash?

Any help in the shape of tutorial or fla will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Eject Cd
Hi can someone help me.. i want 2 make a button in flash that will eject the cd drive. Does anyone know the script? Please help!

Eject Button
HELLO IAM NEW TO THIS WEBSITE

WELL CAN ANY HAS DONE THIS TYPE OF EXPERIMENT OF USING
ACTION SCRIPT FOR EJECT BUTTON !

if this is posible then plz show me how !
in flash

i have a made a button named eject_btn (instance name )

but what action script i should put that after clicking that button my cd rom opens

how i... am .. confused !.

plz help me in this plz !

How To Run Flash From Usb Drive
I'd like to use flash from usb drive, not to install on the computer, is it possible.
<so not an flash applivation, but one of Adboe products (foe example Macromedia Flash 5)>

Thank You!

Flash Drive
I transferred a flash file to a flash drive and when I tried to open it, It asked for the registration number. I don't have my registration numbers for each individual program for the creative suite. These are CS3 programs. This is the first time this has happened to me for I used Flash before on a flash drive and it didn't do this. Can anyone halp?

Accessing CD Drive From Flash
Hi

I am installing an Flash 5 .EXE file onto a PC. When it it initiated I want the file to load up a HTML page that is on a cd in the CDROM drive. Can I get flash to access the HTML file from CDROM drive?

Cheers

Oll

Calling DVD Drive From Flash
I need a little help. I've developed a web-page, and on the page I have a little flash visual. The visual has a hit box and has been assigned as a button. What I need to do is when the user clicks on the hit box, we need it to launch either our Power DVD player, or Windows Media Player, and play a DVD that's in the DVD Drive in either of those 2 programs. As we have it set up right now, we've created a batch file that is launched that calls the DVD. This works, but because of Microsoft's security settings, it recognizes batch files as a potential harmful file, and asks if the user wants to open the file or save it. We don't want that. Somehow we need to bypass that and just have the DVD play. Getting rid of the batch file altogether is no problem as long as we can get the DVD to play when the link is clicked on.

Basically what I'd like to know is if there's a certain actionscript on can put on my button that can specifically call either WMP or Power DVD that will automatically play the DVD. By the way, this web-page is going to be local only, and only being used on one machine, so the DVD drive will always be available to the user on that machine.

Thanks for any help.

INF File On USB Flash Drive
I'm using this script file, "autorun.inf" , on a USB Flash drive to automatically open up a file when it's inserted into a PC. However, it doesn't seem to be working. But, when the same script is used on a CD, it seems to work.

Here's the script I'm using in the INF file:
[Autorun]
open=ad.exe

Is there something else I need to to to get the Flash drive to work?

Running Flash Off A USB Drive
Im tryin to run a flash movie off a USB drive, so people can view a slideshow without the internet or a browser.

I thought I would just be able to publish it out and stick it on the drive, but it didn't work out that way.

What steps do I need to take to make this flash movie run on a USB drive so that any who has this USB drive can view my slideshow??

Running Flash Off A USB Drive
Im tryin to run a flash movie off a USB drive, so people can view a slideshow without the internet or a browser.

I thought I would just be able to publish it out using flash 8 and load it on to the drive, but it didn't work out that way.

What steps do I need to take to make this flash movie run on a USB drive so that any who has this USB drive can view my slideshow??

Exploring The Hard Drive With Flash
I am trying to create an application which will allow the user to upload a file from their hard drive which will then be passed from Flash to a PHP script and then into a MySQL DB. My problem lies in the first part of that. I need a input text field for the path to that file, a browse button which opens windows explorer or something similar, and an open button which passes that file to the Flash movie so it can be displayed and/or edited before passing it to the php script. Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

-J

How To Download Files To C Drive Using Flash
i just cant figure out how to download files into my c drive using flash only, i have several files on a server, what i want to do is, you click a button that says download, and they i want to make flash ask the user to put the path to download the file into, and maybe stick a progress bar on there.
i know the basic actionscript. but i need the command used to copy a file into the c drive.

thanx a lot for your help.

Accessing Hard Drive Through Flash
I'm about to start building a Flash application which will help me keep track of my contacts in a more visual manner. The only problem i'm encountering so far is figuring out the actionscript behind saving the information on to my local hard drive. If anyone has any sugggestions or knows where the information can be found it would be much apprecated.

Also, i just recently won the SXSW student division web competition. You can check out my site at www.madbrad.net

Thanks for the help

How To Play Audio CD In Drive From Flash
Hey everybody, I have a tricky one...
I need to be able to play an audio CD from a projector.
I don't mind if it is an external program that activates or the flash projector itself? Any help???

Note.
I am creating an Enhanced CD that has the Flash projector included and music tracks. This CD works fine in CD players and on a PC the flash projector autoruns.. However, I need for some one to be able to play the music CD either from the Flash projector or an external program executed from the projector.

P.S. What I have tried..
I created a batch file which launches Track01.CDA from a button in the projector. However, with an enhanced CD I realized that tracks are not listed to the operating system only the data files..

Marking The Hard Drive With Flash Scripting?
can you mark the hard drive with scripting?
a buddy of mine marks the harddrive of those who get his software. It will only work on the one hard drive then.
is this posible with flash -----or is there a workaround?

How Can User Access Hard Drive From Within Flash
How can user access hard drive from within Flash and select files or build a library of sounds from within flash??

Flash 5 Server Vs. Local Drive Detection
Is there any way for flash 5 to detect whether it is being run off a server or off a local drive?
I ask because I am using a getURL that is sending a variable to a html page. This works fine off the local drive using:
getURL ("mypage.html%3FmyVariable="+Number(variableNumber ));

And off the server using:

getURL ("mypage.html?myVariable="+Number(variableNumber)) ;

But neither one of these works on the other. So if I can detect whether it's on a server or not I can write a simple if statement.

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Gracias

Starting A Flash CD Directly On Input Into Drive
I have a presentation done in Flash and burned onto a CD.
I would like, when the CD is loaded, for the Flash movie to execute without having to open the drive and double click the .fla file.
Does anyone know how to do this??

Need To Save A File To Hard Drive Using Flash
Has anyone done this before? I need to push a button and have it bring up a save dialog box that will save a specific pdf file (from the same directory where the flash file resides) to where ever the user chooses. Can someone help me?

Linking To Hard Drive Within Flash Movie
Im trying to make a flash movie that will allow me to select a band names icon and have it open the music folder of that band on my hard drive. Ive converted the bands logo to a button but cant seem to find a way to link it to the bands folder. thanx for the help

[MX] Flash Can't Write Data To The Hard Drive?
I was planning to create a flash application which would involve saving data to the hard drive as save files (in the same way that MS Excel and Word do). Unfortunately I have recently been told that this is not possible. Apparently Flash can read but not write data to the disk; it can only write data to servers. Is this true? It would seem to be massive limitation if it is.

I wanted to create this application for pocket pcs (which support Flash Player 7), if that is relevant.

I'm more of a flash beginner/intermiedia than a newbie, but this seemed like a very general newbie-style question so I thought I'd post it here.

Location Of Flash Player On Hard Drive
When I download the new flash player 9 onto my computer, I just get a little animation that says it is downloaded. Where is this player typically stored (filepath?)

Flash 8 Saving File To Hard Drive In Mac OS X
I have an iMac - 1 gig memory OS X - with Flash 8 - I have a Maxtor External Hard Drive. If I try to save an fla file to that hard drive the application terminates. Can any one shed any light on this. I can save files from all other applications. Any insight would be appreciated.

Ron

Flash Won't Save To A Network Mapped Drive
We upgraded a RAID5 disk array that we map from a network share recently. The original disk was 1.8TB the new one is a GPT disk that is 3.6TB.

Now when we try to save files from FLASH CS3 we get errors concerning the file or disk is read only, make sure another program doesn't have the file open..etc..etc...

All the permissions on the disk are fine. Photoshop CS3, Dreamweaver etc..all play fine with the large GPT disk. Anyone else have this problem or know of a solution.

I know the first release of Encore had this problem even with TB drives. If it was over 1,000MB it did the same.

thanks for any input.

PS: I have let the adobe updated get all the appropriate updates for all products.

Can Flash Write Data To The Hard Drive?
I was planning to create a flash application which would involve saving data to the hard drive as save files (in the same way that MS Excel and Word do). Unfortunately I have recently been told that this is not possible. Apparently Flash can read but not write data to the disk; it can only write data to servers. Is this true? It would seem to be massive limitation if it is.

I wanted to create this application for pocket pcs (which support Flash Player 7), if that is relevant.

Saving Forms To Your Hard Drive Thru Flash
Hey, is it possible to have a person fill out a form in flash based, then have the option to save the data to their computer and later open up that form from the flash movie they saved it from for later viewing?

Download To Hard Drive Button In A Flash Movie
Hi,

I'm building a photo viewer which loads individual swf's (each containing a single image) when the relevant thumbnail (in a sliding viewer) is clicked.

What i want to be able to do is have a button in the loaded swf (ie. full size pic), that allows the user to save the picture to their hardrive. ie. click the button and then the normal windows save to hard drive box comes up allowing the user to specify where the file is saved. This should then save the related jpg (NOT the swf) to the hard drive.

Anyone know how this is done???

thanks,

Save Or Write Flash Mx Content Into Txt Format On Drive
All experts

Currently i have a problem with Saving or writing flash mx content into txt format on drive. I only know how to save it into the Shared Object in Flash MX, but i am looking into saving it into a txt file on my c drive. Mind any idea?

Regards
PsychoCool

Write To A Txt File From Flash Localy On My Hard Drive
Hi all
I need to write to a txt file from flash localy on my hard drive and have no idea how to do it....PLEASE HELP ME!!!

This is the way I need it to be writen:

var1=this is the content I need the write|this is content in the same var seperated by the "|" symbol|
&var2=this is the second lot of content I need the write|and so on|and so on|and so on|

I need the flash file to use text inputs in a form to collect the info and write it to the TXT file which is in the same directory as the SWF.

Cheers
Chris

Can Flash Play A File From A Physical Drive Location?
Hello!

I have no Flash experience whatsoever but I have a web client who wants to have some videos stored in a location that is not under the web root. We are wondering if a Flash player would be able to open and play a video file by pointing the player to a location such as:

d:videosuserid

Is this possible? Or will Flash only play files embedded into the code or pointing via a relative or absolute URL?

-Greg

Allowing Viewing But Preventing Copying To HD From Flash Drive Problem
Is there any way to have a script tell the flash file to NOT be copied to HD from a Flash Drive but ALLOWs viewing from the flash drive? In other words is there a method of telling the flash movie not to copy by comparing HD sizes from its source drive (flash drive) to a pc HD (as HD are rarely lower in disk space as a HD)?

Have a client that wants to send out a multitude of Flash Drives to his clients, and doesnt want anyone downloading his flash file from the Flash Drives.

Thanx all

Exported .mov Opens Fine When Transferred Via Flash-drive, But Not Via FTP Download
I've exported a flash movie to .mov which opens in Quicktime from my desktop without a problem. I've since uploaded it to my FTP site for distribution to other people. When others try to open it they get a "The movie could not be opened" message.

I downloaded it to my wife's computer and got the same message. Funny thing is, that when I transfer the file to her computer via flash-drive it opens just fine.

Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

viddie

Full Flash Site Works On Hard Drive But Not Server
I have a simple All flash site that works fine on my hard drive. But when I upload it online, the main movie plays and then nothing loads. Here is how my website works.

There is a main movie, which is like a frame. The homepage and all other Pages(movie clips) load into a empty movie clip which is located in that main frame. All external movies are located in the same directory so I didnt think I would have and crossdomain isssues. Am I missing something here?

(PS I am completely new full flash sites, so please dont overlook the obvious)

"Eject Script" Does Anyone Know How This Is Done ?
We're trying to set an action script at the end of a movie (*.exe) and we want to have a button action to "eject" the cd from the cd-rom drive.
We've seen it done before but can't figure the correct script to do it.
Does anyone know how this is done ?
Thanks in advance,
The B's.

An "eject" Command?
Is it possable to make a button with the action to "eject" the cd-rom drive?

AutoRun Flash.exe On A Flash Drive
Hi:

Does anyone know if it's possible to to take the files from a standard Flash.exe CD and have them autorun on a Flash Drive?

I tried just transferring them over but it did not work.

I haven't heard of this before but a client of mine would like to do this.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

SP

I Don Know Which Drive Is The Cd-rom?
I created a cd that, when inserted into the user's cd-rom drive, automatically opens a flash file. i need dowload files from the html page inner the cd-rom but how can i do to recognize the user´s cd-rom drive, some people have like "d" or "e" or "f"? please

Thank-You very much!

Drive A Car
I have a birds eye view of a car in a movieclip. When the user presses the up down left and right arrows I want the car to move reallisticly. I have already tried MANY tutorials and all the car would do is rotate but not move.

Please Help!

Thanks in advance!

Reading The C Drive
If one wanted to have people be able to load images (JPGS) from their C: drive into FLASH program which was online, how could one do that? XML or something?

Just curious... Thank you...

-pXw

I'm Going To Drive You Crazy
Buttons!!!!

New Problem!

I have a button I can see it on the stage but when I preview it, only the text appears not the graphic. I have tried dropping another instance of it on the stage elsewhere but the same things happens. All my other buttons worked fine.

What's happening?

Tazmania

Get CD Drive Path
Hi,

I've been asked to develop a Flash application where the main part of the content is to be delivered on the webb, but some heavy media elements (video etc.) should be stored on and retrieved from a CD-ROM. The target platform is Windows.

I need to know how to make the webb based flash application load media from the users' local CD drive. I guess the main problem is that the application needs to know the name of the CD-ROM drive (e.g. D. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks,

Makac

Drive Detection... Anybody Know?
Im looking for a way to use Flash to detect the drives of a computer. Specifically the CD-Rom drive. Another option would be to detiremine the Letter path that the flash is launched from.

What I need to find out is what the users CD-Rom Driver letter id is. D, E, F etc.

Is there a way to do this in Flash? Viva Running a bat file? Could JavaScript be used is some manner? If so could the JScript be used without opening a browser window?

Any information would be helpfull, also if anybody knows of a freeware type program that simply determines what drive is the active CD-Rom drive or what drive it it's self is running from and then can launch an app based on this that would be most helpfull.

Thanks a million!

Using Flash To Eject Cd Drive ?

Can someone please tell me how i can make a button that will eject the cd rom drive?