Problem opening html files in Firefox

[mrrowl]

Hi, we are trying to open some html files from our flash projector (basically like an offline website). We open the html file using this code:

just put, on a frame, it has:


on (release) {
getURL("website/portfolio.htm", "_blank");
}


website being the folder on the cd with the files in.
If you already have firefox open, it opens the file fine. Or in IE if you have it open or not it will open it okay. But if you dont have firefox open it will just open firefox empty, without the file in.

With a website URL it works fine:

on (release) {
getURL("www.website-name.com", "_blank");
}

Thanks for your help.

[Northcode]

Have you tried adding file:// to the reference and/or using the entire path? If you know where the files are on the CD you can use this trick (below) to get the drive letter of the CD and from that you can construct the full path.

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

That's assuming that the "website" folder is ini the root of the CD. I have no idea whether this will fix your firefox problems or not, just something to try

[Twandeman]

Hi Northcode,
This post is from time ago, I know.
I tried what you suggested, because I'm having the exact same problem, I just want to open an html page on my cd-rom from my standalone projector, because the html-page isn't online anymore, and because you can't expect that everyone has an internet connection. Can't this be done? I tried your code:

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

Instead of opening a blank window, nothing happens anymore.
Is this only a firefox issue?
Thanks anyway!

[Twandeman]

Take a look at this:
http://probertson.com/articles/2006/...refox-problem/