Browser opens behind projector--please help!

[atebit]

ok so all my getURLs launch the browsers fine, but if the user allready has a window open, the browser launches behind the projector causing the user to minimize and tab over to the web browser. this only seems to happen on a pc

is there any way to attach something to either the first frame of the flash to close any open browser windows? i know this is a bit of an annoyance for me, as well as many others, from a usablitiy standpoint, but this is the last tweak my client is not budging on

here is the absolute path script i am using for my getURLs:

on (press) {
poslastslash = this._url.lastIndexOf("\\");
if (poslastslash == -1) {
poslastslash = this._url.lastIndexOf("/");
}
folderurl = this._url.substr(0, poslastslash+1);
poscolon = folderurl.indexOf("|");
if (poscolon<>-1) {
folderurlstart = folderurl.substr(0, poscolon);
folderurlend = folderurl.substr(poscolon+1);
folderurl = folderurlstart+":"+folderurlend;
}
targeturl = folderurl+"games/hallofthewild/hall_of_the_wild.htm";
getURL(targeturl, "_blank");
}


thanks for your time and input

[Kraken]

best bet is to buy one of the projector enhancers, either SWF Studio, Zinc or Flash Jester. They will allow you to specify a property to open external apps on top of flash.

[atebit]

so there are no freeware apps? will they all work with flash 8? thanks for the advice; i will look into these

in the meantime, does anyone else have an alternate workaround?