Flash 8 getURL Buttons

I have a site with navigation buttons in some of the Flash
(Flash 8) movies. The navigation buttons within Flash are
programmed to load a new html file in _Self. All of the html pages
are within the same directory. Here is the code:
on (release) {
getURL("operation-03.html", "_self");
When I upload the site to my Web site, the buttons work
perfectly. However, when I load the site onto a CD, only the
Dreamweaver navigation buttons work. The navigation buttons within
the SWF files do not work. Nothing happens when they are clicked.
I have 'Allow active content from CDs to run on my computer'
checked in the Security section of my browser.
Is there something else I have to do to make these navigation
buttons work when the site is run from a CD?
TIA

Thanks Urami! This worked. However, there is still one set of
buttons that still don’t work. These buttons are programmed
to open a new window that is a specific size and has all the
toolbars and menu bars turned off. The html page that opens in the
window contains an swf file that runs a video.
Again, it works perfectly over the Internet or when I test
the html page from Dreamweaver on my PC, but the window will not
open when the button is pressed if the program is running from a
CD.
This program was originally created with Studio MX 2004 with
Flash Professional. With that version, the CD worked on Windows
2000 PCs but not Windows XP. We re-published the entire program
with Flash Professional 8. Once I fixed the file names as you
suggested, everything works except the buttons that open a child
window. Now these buttons in the Version 8 program don’t work
on a CD running on Windows 2000 either.
Here is the code that I have in Flash movie for the button:
on (release) {
getURL("javascript:newWindow('videowin_turnassist.html')");
Here is the code that I have in the html document:
function newWindow(bookgif) {
bookWindow = window.open(bookgif, 'bookWin',
'toolbar=no,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=400,height=425')
bookWindow.focus()
I got this html code out of a reference book several years
ago and we use it all the time to open child windows from parent
windows.
I tried other code that I got out of an ActionScript book and
from the Help files, but I can’t get any of it to work at all
(not even from Dreamweaver).
Do you have any other suggestions for opening a specifically
sized child window that will run a Flash movie?
TIA
Diane

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