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

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

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.

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

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Originally Posted by EQFlash

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

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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.

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

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.

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Originally Posted by Northcode

This should fix the problem...

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

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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.

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...

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.

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.

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 :)

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

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 ...

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

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.

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");

I am burning a cd using

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

I will let you know

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?

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

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.

most people (doctors) will be launching from the exe file which I have set up to auto run. How would I go about attaching the Javascript for the exe.

Thanks
cs

You can't put the JavaScript in the EXE at all. JavaScript requires a browser so you will have to put that code in the < head> section of any HTML files that you want resized.

But many modern browers like IE and FF will give warnings if a local file tries to access javascript functions..

So i would highly suggest: Forget about a custom size.
(we achieve it @ work with a custom EXE which runs its own IE control.. )

How about centering the content in those html pages, for a nice look 'n feel?

[edit]
@jasonsplace:
I think he doesn't know how happy he can be, having the "double-feature-help" ;)

I agree with McUsher...in fact I made a small browser one time for someone but I don't know whatever happened to it but the security warnings will probably scare clients away.
BTW....What is "double-feature-help"?

@ jasonsplace:
Mostly the experienced people in here grab one person, that needs help and (hopefully) help until the problem is solved.
Very rarely 2 experienced people simultaniously care about one with a prob...
I consider this being a "double-feature"... (remember, i talk Krautenglish ;) )

I see and it's true...I usually avoid any thread that already has replies unless I can tell I have a guaranteed fix from just the title which isnt very often....I will also look sometimes if it looks like something interesting.

We are what our politians should be:
Same of a kind.. ;)

Sorry @ cspohr for getting a bit offtopic :)

No problem guys I really appreciate the help. You both are bailing me out big time. I have been very impressed with how both of you are helping me out.

Now how do I go about centering the object in the html code. Will this keep it nice and neat so there are not breaks in the images when the browser window is adjusted in and out by the user.

I have an idex.html file that shows me the size 750 x 550 and then the launch.html does not have the size. Like I said I did not create these files. Here is the code for the launch.html that I think is where I should place the size constaints.

<html>
<head>
<title>Powered By Accordent</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<frameset cols="770,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO" border="0">
<frameset rows="550,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO" border="0">
<!-- actual frame goes here -->
<frameset rows="18%,82%" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="top.html" name="region2" scrolling="NO" noresize id="region2">
<frameset cols="32%,68%" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO" border="0">
<frame src="left.html" name="video" scrolling="NO" noresize id="video">
<frame src="clear.html" name="region1" scrolling="NO" noresize id="region1">
</frameset>
</frameset>
<!-- frame end here -->
<frame src="blank.html" name="topFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize>
</frameset>
<frame src="blank.html" name="topFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize>
</frameset>
<noframes>Your browser does not support Frameset!</noframes>
</html>

or should I do it in the index.html?

Thanks
chris

which is...

<html>
<head>
<title>Powered by ACCORDENT</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0
window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

<table width="800" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="800" height="137"><img src="index_01.gif"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="800" height="422" valign="top" background="index_02.gif">
<table width="800" height="132" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td height="64" colspan="3" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="47" height="33" valign="bottom">&nbsp;</td>
<td colspan="2" valign="bottom"><font color="#333333" size="4" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">To View Presentation</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="35">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="153" height="35" align="right">
<br><a href="#" onclick="MM_openBrWindow('launch.html','pres','wid th=750,height=550')"><img src="button.gif" width="79" height="28" border="0"></a></td>
<td width="600">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="800" height="41"><img src="index_03.gif"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Thanks again
Chris

omg.. sorry but i don't get it:
You have a launch.html which contains some framesets and in one of the frames
you open launch.html again??!?
And the javascript in the index.html is no good.. but we expained that before..

That looks somehow very "old-stylish" ...
(the frameset code makes me feel like beeing an archaeologist ;) )
If i were you i'd totally omit those old launch htmls and write new ones..

that is pretty funny... we outsourced for this html coding to be done, it figures that it would be crappy.

So is there a way that I can input some Javascript into the launch.html code to constrain the proportions to 750 x 550 or to center the content in the html pages.

Thanks
Chris

Please read again, what we wrote about javascript in local (from drive) http documents...

got ya, sorry I had to go back a page. I will let you know if it works.

Thanks
Chris