Execute JavaScript and Button

Hello Forum,
I have a project anomaly. I have created about ten captivate
projects, all using a similar (almost identical) menu system.
This is basically an ending slide with three buttons on it.
One button has an Execute Javascript action tied to it. my code
there is a function to open a separate browser window when the
button is clicked. I wrote the function to open the window in the
"standard.js" file that Captivate publishes. I am using Captivate
3. In 8 of these projects, when the button is clicked it opens the
browser window.
In two of thses projects the button makes a nice click sound,
I see a quick screen/window flash, but no new browser window!
Same button same code same standard.js file.??? I checked a
button that works, and compared its properties to one that does not
work, they all have the same numbers, etc. I gave up.
Then I copied a button that works from an app that works, and
copied that button on to the project where the button did not open
the window. Deleted the "bad" button, revised the link address in
my call to the function: wopen("
http://info.mysite.com"); and
this works!
I have been using the standard Text button for these apps.
Any ideas on this one??? the publishing for the programs is
all the same (Flash Player 9, etc)
Thanks,
eholz1

@Erickj: Either do what Rod stated (adjusting your Flash Security settings) or test your content from a true web server. Flash automatically trusts content coming off a true web server where the web address begins with http or https and ends in .htm or .html.
The nice thing about Cp 7 is that it has a built-in web server so you don't run into issues like this when testing your content.

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