Just an aside to this.. Try changing the version specified in the .flash line to than 8, then compile and run again.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html Versions 8 and upward handle accessing external URLs in a slightly different way. Regards, Chris. On 7 July 2010 07:47, pascal fautrero <admin.paulb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, Iosif budulai found where I was wrong. I worked on my local machine > and never thought it could be different if I tried on a server. So : > > getURL("http://www.google.com", "_blank"); > > this command works fine (if I store the swf file on a server) but it fails > if the swf file is located on my machine. > > Thanks to Mark Lee and Iosif budulai for their help. > > Regards, > > 2010/7/6 Mark Lee <marcusantoniousl...@yahoo.ca> >> >> Maybe put some quotes around url, like getURL("url", "_blank") and see if >> that works. I don't have a clue. >> >> >> Mark >> >> ________________________________ >> From: pascal fautrero <admin.paulb...@gmail.com> >> To: swftools-common@nongnu.org >> Sent: Tue, July 6, 2010 1:28:30 PM >> Subject: [Swftools-common] swfc + getURL >> >> Hi, >> >> Since a week, I try and test swfc to create small banners. It is really >> easy to use ! Thanks a lot for this useful tool. I just encounter a trouble >> using the instruction getURL. I explain. >> >> I have just created a small button like this : >> >> .button MyButton >> >> .show bouton scale=100% as=area >> .show bouton scale=100% as=idle >> .show bouton scale=100% as=shape >> .show bouton scale=100% alpha=60% as=hover >> .on_release: >> getURL("hello.html", "_blank"); >> .end >> >> It works nice. My file hello.html is called properly. But, if a change the >> url parameter like that : >> >> getURL("http://www.google.com", "_blank"); >> >> It does not work anymore. If I decompile the swf file, I see that the >> instruction has been modified like this : >> >> getURL("http://www.google.com", "_blank"; >> >> The right bracket has disappeared. >> >> So, I tried to modify this instruction like this : >> >> url = "http://www.google.com"; >> getURL(url, "_blank"); >> >> Now, the right bracket does not disappear anymore but...the command getURL >> is not executed. Where I am wrong ? >> >> For now, the only solution I found is to open my file hello.html where I >> do a html redirection (meta-redirect) to www.google.com. >> >> Thanks >> >> Regards, >> >> Pascal >> > > > > -- > Pascal Fautréro > Collège Paul Bert > Malakoff - 92 >