FLASH: Opening explorer, and word documents with flash standalone

[Pete Simpson]

I'm trying to create the front end for a CD-ROM, and have the following

problem.


I wish to create two buttons, one to open explorer in the CD-ROM directory,

ie browse this CD, and one to open a word document. I seem unable to get

word to respond, I'm not sure how flash standalone player handles calls out,

the file associations in windows don't seem to point this to Word.


The following example doesn't work at all, thought the file system seems to

look for the file (notice this when calling the file from the floppy drive,

the drive kicks in but no file is opened.


On (Release)

      FS Command ("exec", "/documentation.doc")

End On



Using the following button command, I can open the word document in Internet

Explorer:


On (Release)

      Get URL ("/Documentation.doc")

End On


...but I really want the command to open Word, not word embedded in IE.


As for the explorer, I can open explorer using the following command, but

can't work out how to default to the CD-ROM directory...


On (Release)

      Get URL ("explorer.exe")

End


Help would be appreciated, thanks in advance



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