[wdale]

Hi, I am trying to produce a CD with a load of PDF's on it and a Flash movie which is used to load these PDF's off the CD and into a Web Browser

I am using the getURL action in Flash but was wondering about how I would go about specifying the location of the PDF's because I don't want to hardcode the CD drive location for example:

getUrl("file:///E:/.....")

because then if someone had 2 hard drives the flash movie wouldn't load the PDFs.

Please help,
Wayne

[Aric]

sounds like something someone might know in the Web Development forum.

[philzilla]

you don't need to specify the drive. you can just target the file the same as you would any other file.

it's been a while since i did this, but i seem to recall some weirdness when the cd was for a pc. check www.flashkit.com for more info; i know there's some on there somewhere

[bmmp]

I believe you could use a relative URL tag and not an absolute tag.

Just like HTML.

Dont Do this:
getUrl("file://E:/pdfs/page1.pdf")
(because you don't know if other people will already have a E drive designated for the CD-ROM [obviously, you already know])

Do this:
getUrl("file://pdfs/page1.pdf")
Remove the E: and be sure everything works in Dreamweaver using Link Checker or make sure everything is in the same native folder.

It's a bit difficult to explain, but there are 2 ways to specify a file location: Absolute and Relative.

They act the way they sound, an Absolute File Location specifys the exact location (E:/pdfs/page1.pdf) <--- This file is located only on the E drive in the folder pdfs.

A relative file location assumes the file your looking for exists within the same folder. (pdfs/page1.pdf) <--- Without the E:// the computer (Mac/PC) assumes that the pdfs folder is nearby (within the same directory) and it doesn't matter what letter the drive is.

Hope this helps.