Help with Flash
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- nacnud
Okay, I have two questions for all of you who are smarter than I am:
1) I have a Flash EXE on a CD that has a mailto: function in a getURL. Simple, right? It works on my machine, but it doesn't work on the client's. I thought that maybe they don't have their email program configured right, but it works fine when it's coming from an HTML page. Any thoughts?
2) From that same EXE, I have to launch some external websites. The problem is that the EXE is fullscreen, and the browser pops up behind the EXE so that the user has no idea that the link worked until they close the EXE out. Anybody know of a way to make the browser pop in front of the fullscreen EXE? I don't have access to the HTML pages that are linked, so it has to happen within the Flash.
Thanks for your input!
- rabattski0
as far as my knowledge goes both questions are known issues and can't be resolved. had the same experience on a cd-rom production. on some machines it does start a browser and on some don't. and if it does sometimes it pops before and sometimes behind (various per machine as well).
- rabattski0
then again that's what i know. maybe someone else knows more.
- ********0
2. seems as if it is a layering issue, haven't seen too many full-screen sites bringing up external URL's sorry. :)
- stewart0
interresting.
- ********0
Actually, I think I have the code for this, because I once created this Kiosk system for a company and I'm dead sure I had external links from that full screen. Hmmmm.... E-mail me.
- unfittoprint0
regarding the mail question, it should work.
I'm not sure, but I think a fullscreen window is always onFocus. I think you could use window.blur() to remove focus from the current window.
- ********0
doesn't this guy do it? http://www.met04.com/
- rabattski0
he isn't executing it from a browser (that way you could easily control it). he's executing it from a standalone player (as far as i understand). which allows getURL commands but on some machines it doesn't work and if it does it doesn't always show up in front.
- ********0
hmmm
- nacnud0
RE: window.blur()
so would I just put that exact line in the on(release) code? So it'd be:
on (release) {
window.blur();
getURL("http://www.newstoda…...
}Sorry, I would just try it, but it works fine on my machine so I really can't test it to see if it works differently!
- PrayStation0
We had this same problem with a CDROM we're working on right now for the tractor company Caterpillar. There is a program out there called JEMAIL - http://sourceforge.net/projects/…. and while we found this to work better that using GETURL... it still only works about 80% of the time... on some machines it just won't work. which I think might have something to do with Norton maybe and security ???
anyway for the CAT project just listing the Email on a page is not as elegant but at least it's 100%.
hope this helps,
- rabattski0
window.blur() is a js command not an as command. so if you're using a standalone player it's not gonna work. however if you would work in a browser than you wouldn't have these problems to start with. like said before.
- ********0
interesting info
- dstlb0
2. Can't you just add a 'Fullscreen = false' action to the buttons that launch the websites? And add a 'return to fullscreen' button to your design.
- nacnud0
Hmmmm...return to fullscreen...interesting fix. I was just going to not have it be fullscreen at all, at this point, but this may be a good way to get around it. Thanks!
- krist0ff0
you could fork out for this:
http://www.flashjester.comwe use it for flash/cdrom projects and it solves URL and email issues.