Having problem with my standalone projector launching URLs correctly.

[coopster]

Here's the skinny...

I have a standalone projector. And have created links using Dynamic Text boxes and variables (yes, each link/variable has a unique name). I want the links to open in the same browser window... BUT it only works on my Win 98 PC. Win 2000, and a bunch others open separate windows for each link... even though I specified "_top". There are a TON of links in this projector and the client doesn't want the user to close the projector and have a bunch of other windows to close down. Personally, I prefer that.. but, its whatever the client wants

Any ideas on this problem? Thanks for any tips!!

Settings are as follows:

In the "Text Options" tab:

Dynamic Text
Single Line
HTML (checked)
Variable: var100


In the "Frame Actions" tab:

var100 = "<a href=\"http://www.mywebsite.org/page100.html\" target=\"_top\"><b><i>http://www.mywebsite.org/page100.html</i></b></a>";



Here's a thread that was the start of this:
http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=130191

[Tracer2001]

Does the windows 2000 has internet explorer 5.5 sp1 check the info box (under help) win2k installs ie5.0

Maybe thats the problem.

Trac.

[coopster]

I just looked and tested my projector on two different Win 98 machines.

The one running IE 5.00 works perfect!! (opens only one browser window).

The one running IE 5.50 opens separate windows (Grrr!)

Hmmm very interesting! Cripes!

Is there a setting in the browser that you know of that can be switched in the later ver's of IE to "mind" the Flash commands?

The other thing I noticed was, I have "_top" specified. BUT, "top" is specified in the example on thread
http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=130191

Which is it? "_top" or "top" ??

Thanks again for your help.
[Edited by coopster on 04-25-2001 at 11:00 AM]

[Tracer2001]

no but you can solve it in flash. The techdoc is on flash exchange new flash command check it out.

About the ie version
You can uncheck always send url's als utf-8 (stands under extra internet options > advanced)

Try it

Its _top

Np Hope you help when i need it

[coopster]

Hey, check it out.. I can already help you

That option (Always send URLs as UTF-8) is for how your characters are displayed when pages are launched in your browser... like if they were foreign. Here is the "?" text fyi:

Specifies whether to use UTF-8, a standard that defines characters so they are readable in any language. This enables you to exchange Internet addresses (URLs) that contain characters from any language.


AND... there's more........ this is from Macromedia's web site:

Targeting a browser frame or window. To target a browser frame or window use the standard TARGET attribute of the <A> tag:
Go to <A HREF="http://www.macromedia.com" TARGET="frame_Name" >Macromedia's Web site</A>

Note: Currently, the TARGET tag is an undocumented and, therefore, unsupported feature. This feature is accessible only through ActionScript and not in the authoring environment.

See more info about this at:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...s/htmltext.htm