linking to external files

[nicostorm]

You will have to forgive me as my action script knowledge isnt great, and Im sure this must be really easey,
I am currently trying to put together a showreel of my 3D work in flash, and im trying to link from thumb nails on the flash doc to jpg's, avi's etc which I will include on the CD along with the exe version of the flash file.

I was using
on(release){
getURL("c:/path/file.extention", _blank);
}

Until I realised that when linking to the files on the CD this wouldnt work, I was told that if I removed drive name, and used the folder as a relative postion this should work from the hard drive or the CD, but I cant get it to work.

Can anyone tell me where Im going wrong please, and please dont tell me I need to learn more about actionscripting again, I know I do, but have very little time at the moment.

[aaron.martone]

Well... a couple key points

(a) this may not work, because messing with local files might be a HUGE security risk.

(b) the proper syntax for getURL is ("path", "target", "GET/POST")

(c) the slash sytax for a local machine is \ and not / (c:\path\file.extension)

Try giving those a change and see what comes of it.

[nicostorm]

Cheers, I was a little unsure what you meant by point a, the files will be included on the CD for people to link to from the exe, but Ill give it a go, as for the point b, I had used it in normal mode, and that was the syntax that I ended with, and the slashes was just me typing too fast, with no care, thanks a again, Ill post back up if it works.

[webQS]

Try using file://

e.g
file:///C:/Program%20Files/Macromedia/Flash%20MX/Help/Flash/html/20_integrating3.html

This will tell Flash to look on the local file system for the file.

for a cd try :

file:///directory/file.txt

if you use d: you may have trouble with users who stick the CD in e: or p: or g: or z:

hth
James