path to linked HTML document doesn't work after burned to CD

[cspohr]

Well in a nutshell that is the problem. When ever I burn to the CD my link to the html documents gets lost. Not sure what to do. It works on my computer. Can it not find it because the back slashes should be forward slashes.

on (release) {
getURL("../player%20file%20s/player%20files/viscusi1-01-wma launch.html", "_blank");
}

Please help.

Thanks
cs

[jasonsplace]

I would try using Forward slashes and also, is the path correct? I wouldn't use spaces in your path either. Try using underscores in place of them.

[EQFlash]

put the entire url address i.e. ("http://www.flashkit.com","_blank")

[jasonsplace]

put the entire url address i.e. ("http://www.flashkit.com","_blank")

I would normally recommend this as well but if he is loading the file off of a cd then there isn't really a way to know what the end user's CD Drive letter will be.

[jasonsplace]

Actually, I did find a solution that should work for you. Go look at this thread.

[cspohr]

I tried using forward slashes and unfortunetly it did not work. The html document is just a document located on the disk, so I do not have a complete http address. I am really confused as to why it can not find the documents. Am I right when I start off with the folder the launch.html document is located in on the root of the CD.

on (release) {
getURL("..\schechter2-01-wma\launch.html", "_blank");
}

Thanks for the help, this is driving me nuts.

[jasonsplace]

This should fix the problem...

drv = _url.substr(8,1);
getURL("file://" + drv + ":\\glossary.html");

That is the solution that Northcode gave in the other thread. It allows you to get the drive letter so that you can then give the full path to the file.

[McUsher]

1) \ is a backward slash, / is a forward slash
2) use forward slashes and relative paths as they are OS independend
3) don't use the workaround jasonsplace linked to... as that is not a good workaround and i highly doubt, that this is the problem.
4) in the root dir of the cd you can't use ../ as that points one directory up, but there
is none...

Hmm.. could you pls post the absolute pathes to your files?
Like :
d:/index.html //will be initially loaded from CD
d:/flash/bla.swf // will be embedded in the index.html

So we will have an idea what is going wrong...

[cspohr]

My html documents are not located on the root of the CD unfortunetly they are located in a folder on the root. The person who created the html documents labeled all three presentations the same so I can not put them all on the root without replacing parts of each. I could relabel all of the documents but that would leave me with a ton of documents on the root of the CD. I know that this can be done at least I think so.

Thanks again for your help.

[jasonsplace]

Can you give a list of the contents of the CD. Like Where is the file located that launches all of the web pages? Is it in the root? If it is then you don't need the ../ like McUsher said.

[McUsher]

Well then pls post the absolute paths to all involved documents (html/swf),
so we can see, how your filestructure looks like

[edit]
Oh jason was faster

[cspohr]

file://localhost/Users/cspohr/Desktop/playerfiles/schechter1-01-wma/launch.html
file://localhost/Users/cspohr/Desktop/playerfiles/schechter2-01-wma/launch.html
file://localhost/Users/cspohr/Desktop/playerfiles/viscusi1-01-wma/launch.html

Here are the three complete paths. The files as you can see are located on my desktop. I can get it to work on my mac with this..

on (release) {
getURL("../playerfiles/schechter1-01-wma/launch.html", "_blank");
}

on (release) {
getURL("../playerfiles/viscusi1-01-wma/launch.html", "_blank");
}


on (release) {
getURL("../playerfiles/schechter2-01-wma/launch.html", "_blank");
}

These are in the same order as the paths.

Hope this helps.

Thanks again everyone

[McUsher]

hmm if i am correct, it must be:
getURL("../../playerfiles/schechter2-01-wma/launch.html", "_blank");
or:
getURL("../schechter2-01-wma/launch.html", "_blank");

as relative path, as one example...
I still don't get, why the wrong paths work on your mac ... shouldn't be..

And that is NOT the Absolute path on CD ...

[cspohr]

And this is what is going to be on the CD. It will contain the autorun.inf and the .exe file along with a projector file in case there are any Mac users. Then also on the root will be pdfs that are also linked to the .exe and the projector. On the root will be three folders labeled

schechter1-01-wma
schechter2-01-wma
viscusi1-01-wma

Each will contain all of the parts of the html document along with the main launch.html document. Hoope this helps

Sorry I am a little slow on the replies because I am working on this at the same time.

Thanks
cs

[jasonsplace]

Is the EXE File going to be launching these files? If it is, where is it located at. Can you give the complete directory structure of what the CD is going to be if McUsher's last suggestion didn't fix it.

[McUsher]

Grr suddenly there is a projector... hmpf..

Ok the Projector is in cd-root... aknowledged.
So if you do a link to those html files in that projector,
it should naturally be:

getURL("./schechter-1-01-wma/launch.html","_blank");

as ./ is currentpath and schechterXX the first subfolder.

You might omit the ./ as well:
getURL("schechter-1-01-wma/launch.html","_blank");

[cspohr]

I am burning a cd using

getURL("schechter-1-01-wma/launch.html","_blank");

I will let you know

[McUsher]

Should work if that is really your filestructure

And pls do yourself a favour and read a (short) tutorial about relative paths
It is quite easy and helps you having less headaches on many occasions.

but tbh i still don't get, why it worked on your harddrives structure..
Where was the Projector located there?

[cspohr]

ALRIGHT!!!! wohoo, that worked. Thanks Now on to my next question I want to constrain the size of my html document to 750 x 550. How would I go about attaching that to the...

getURL("schechter-1-01-wma/launch.html","_blank");

I need javascript for this right?

Thanks again to all.

cs

[jasonsplace]

Yes you need JavaScript but you can't run JavaScript from within a projector so you will need to resize the window in the launch.html file. Here is a javascript I found on another thread to do it:
<script language=Javascript>
<!--
self.moveTo(200,200);
self.resizeTo(width=750, height=550);
self.focus();
//-->
</script>

It allows you to move, resize and set focus to the browser window. You can get rid of any of the things that you don't want to do and change the numbers to meet your specs.