[EdrickV]

Originally posted by Goober5000
Maybe you can work on the other ships, too - and just wait for a solution.

I don't think there will be a real "solution" because, at least from Microsoft's point of view, it's not a problem. It's a feature. If you could have an HTML document run a program just by clicking a link, with no confirmation dialog, it would be quite a security hole.

[Unknown Target]

Can someone please post an installer for it?

W00t! I have the 20,000th post!

[Fetty]

installer for what ?
its an swf file
open it with IE

[Unknown Target]

How do I make it my desktop, I mean.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Fetty
installer for what ?
its an swf file
open it with IE

opening it up with IE and making it a background (Desktop) is a totally different thing.

i'll put an installer... all you do is click it, then click 'install' and it puts it as your desktop

[Goober5000]

Microsoft's new help files (CHM) are HTML-based, and I think they allow you to open stuff by clicking links - I'm not sure.

Perhaps they say so in the CHM documentation how they do that.

[Stealth]

really?  what OS is this... give me a example, send it to me or something!

[Goober5000]

Eh, they've had it around since Win98 (okay, it's not that new)...do a search on the hard drive for .CHM; you ought to find several.  Then do an online search.

Again, I'm not positive, but I do think this is possible.

[Stealth]

i know it's possible... it's just really really difficult to do

[Stealth]

Launching a PowerPoint Slide Show from Flash

By utilizing FSCommand exec and a batch (.bat) file (PC), you can launch a PowerPoint slide show from your Flash presentation menu.

1) In Flash, assign an action script to your link with the following fscommand exec:

       on (release) {
         fscommand ("exec", "launcher.bat");
       }

(in this example FSCommand exec executes a batch file called launcher.bat)

2) Create a batch file (i.e. launcher.bat) containing a single command:

       START presentations/SlideShow_A.pps

(In this example SlideShow_A.pps resides in a folder called presentations)

3) You must publish a flash .exe file (or run your .swf file directly since this won't work with an .swf file called by an html document)

4) Right click on your launcher.bat file and check the "Close on exit" box. (This will create an MSDOS shortcut in the same root as the batch file. This is necessary! Do not change or delete this new file! Note, that you will still call the launcher.bat file with fscommand exec.)

Note that step 4 immediately closes that ugly MSDOS prompt window so it's not hanging around waiting for the .pps file to launch, and won't be sitting there on top of your flash menu when you exit out of your slide show.

B.T.W., why must you launch a batch file? FSCommand exec isn't capable of opening a specific file with an application, just the application itself.

this is the method i'm using at the moment... it seems the 'closest' to working

Note the last line

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Stealth
this is the method i'm using at the moment... it seems the 'closest' to working

Note the last line

All that the last line means is that the Flash can't open "mypresentation.ppt" while opening PowerPoint.  By using a batch file, you can pass arguments.

This is what I had in mind originally, but here's the kicker...

You must publish a flash .exe file (or run your .swf file directly) since this won't work with an .swf file called by an html document

We need a way around that.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Goober5000


All that the last line means is that the Flash can't open "mypresentation.ppt" while opening PowerPoint.  By using a batch file, you can pass arguments.

yeah, i quoted the wrong line

the last line means that it can't open a direct file or application... you've got to open a file (.TXT, .BAT, .CFG, whatever) to open in turn the other file

only obstacle right now:  Can't even get a file (.BAT) opened AT ALL!!! when the SWF is being opened via an HTML document... which just happens to be the method that is used as a desktop

[EdrickV]

Originally posted by Stealth


yeah, i quoted the wrong line

the last line means that it can't open a direct file or application... you've got to open a file (.TXT, .BAT, .CFG, whatever) to open in turn the other file

only obstacle right now:  Can't even get a file (.BAT) opened AT ALL!!! when the SWF is being opened via an HTML document... which just happens to be the method that is used as a desktop

The exec fscommand only works in the Flash player which means for a wallpaper file it's useless. We already went through that.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by EdrickV


The exec fscommand only works in the Flash player which means for a wallpaper file it's useless. We already went through that.

Correction:  I[/i] already went through that...
i'm just summarizing what the status is in the meantime, so a new person to this thread doesn't have to read through 10 pages...  if you're good at Flash, then figure out a way through this

[Stealth]

execute this file to make it your desktop... doesn't do anything, but oh well



http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/mainhallv8.exe

[Stealth]

Project revived.

I've got some new ideas, and with new technology out, there's a much better chance of this working.  stay tuned, and if anyone has any ideas, let me know.

[Hippo]

...


I was quite suprised to find an email saying that someone had posted here... I didn't even remember it, and i was quite confused... You know this'll cause chaos, right? All this reading of 2 years ago and stuff...

[Stealth]

well Goober sent me a message a few days ago, mentioning this project.  i realized that a lot of new stuff's happened since two years ago, that might make this, and the other FS1 and FS2 halls, much easier to make into a fully funcitoning desktop...

stay tuned

P.S. chaos?  naaa

[Taristin]

I demand the Psamtik main hall!

[Kamikaze]

It's possible to do a lot of the stuff mentioned here using creative html/javascript/css. Now if IE had support for SVG/SMIL it'd be even better, but knowing MS that will never happen.
That'd be nice 'cause SVG is probbaly less resource intensive than flash and works well with html/css, but Microsoft is developing a competitor to Flash and SVG. Ridiculous...