open documents from a local presentation

[zerphania]

Hi my first post so please be gentle :)

I have read and tried Jesse Stratford's tut on this but I can 't get it to work in Flash Player 7. So anyone have any ideas/pointers?

Any help greatfully recieved.

[dipkya]

Try using this to open a document.
getURL("myDocument.doc")

[zerphania]

Try using this to open a document.
getURL("myDocument.doc") Hi thanks but I have tried this and it doesn't want to open anything :(

Thinking about it I am going to try using a batch file and use the fscommand to execute it, should work along the lines of:

on (release) {
fscommand ("exec", "launcher.bat");
}

where the bat file is:

START MyFile.pdf

I don't see why it wouldn't work, or am I missing something here?

[dipkya]

You need to put your bat file and pdf file in fscommand folder. Then this will work.

[zerphania]

Yes worked a treat