Launching .exe from within flash?

[taylorgauss]

I am trying to make my wallpaper interactive having a number of buttons that can launch programs for me. I have tried a few thing and have not gotten it to work. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Thanks for you help!

Taylor

[deepakflash]

you got to use a getURL to open a batch file(.bat), but this will work on your local disk only, i dont think it works in browser.
and in your batch file you will have the file name along wih the file path that you need to open
try this,

getURL(batchfilename.bat,"_blank");

and in your batch file(.bat)
just type the location of the file to be opened. example

d:\openFolder\newApplication.exe

or else, just follow this thread and try fscommand method

[taylorgauss]

Alright I will give that a try. I am not familiar with .bat files. Can i just use notepad to make one and name it .bat

[deepakflash]

yea right thats how you do it

[taylorgauss]

I cant get that to work do yo think i can use the fscommand to get it to work.

[deepakflash]

yes do it