Originally posted by Thunder
Glad it might prove useful... Outside programs? Well if you load the program a second time it shuts itself down (which is how you turn it off). It must therefore check to see if another program is running then act upon that information? That might be something...
what i'm working with right now (after trying dozens of methods) is having the SWF call a batch file, which in turn opens/closes the appropriate program. This works perfectly, exxccceeeeepppttttt that most people don't have the Standalone Flash Player, and when they have an SWF as a background (desktop) it's actually embedded into an HTML file, which is calling it. and an HTML file is viewed with a browser, and for security purposes i've found out, the browser won't let a webpage open actual programs. i guess this is good, or some websites would start opening/deleting files on the hard drive
but oh well
i've tried... still trying...
i may try to do it in Java, one day
