getURL problem !!!!!!!

[adham_a]

Hello all,

I want to open an HTML file from flash i placed the following code in the action menu of my button:



on (release) {
trace("SDF");
link = "C:\\test\\Flash Files\\Anim\\NICOLEanimatingRand.html";
getURL(link, "_blank");
}



when i am trying my code by ctrl + enter nothing happens i just get the trace message.

any idea what is wrong

thanks

[thoriphes]

actually, the way you're doing it is incorrect. it's really odd how flash gets local paths. it doesn't follow the traditional windows way of using backslashes (\), but like this:
file:///c|/txtfileontheCdrive.txt

it's really complex like that. to show you what i'm talking about, make a new window and in frame one add this actionscript:


trace(_url);

that'll output the path of the swf that was made. it's quite sketchy if you ask me. so to fix your code...


on (release) {
trace("SDF");
//link = "C:\test\Flash Files\Anim\NICOLEanimatingRand.html";
link = "file:///c|/test/Flash%20Files/Anim/NICOLEanimatingRand.html";
getURL(link, "_blank");
}

[adham_a]

thanks for your reply but i also tried the relative addressing thing and i used :

link = "..\Flash Files\Anim\blabla.html";

my flash file is in Flash Files directory (obvious)

but it didn't work again. The problem is that i am not getting even an error which is in fact making me angry :pirate: because that means the the command is not reacting or something like that

[grimdeath]

just do this




ActionScript:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
on (release) {

getURL("NICOLEanimatingRand.html", "_blank");
}


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

if its in the same dir as the swf file maybe the trace condition or the cat that your using a variable for the link causing the problem