Open URL problem

We have a Captivate course (published as a SWF file) with a
imagebutton at the end. The user clicks it and then we want another
SWF file to load. We can get this to work fine via the "open URL or
file" action when the SWF is located on a server (
http://localhost/myfile.swf).
But when we deploy to run this off a CD, the browser window will
open via the filesystem (file:///D:/myfile.swf). In this instance
we cannot get the Open URL to work.
Remembering that not all CD drives are the "D" drive we
cannot hard-code that link in. We tried referencing the next file
(which is in the same directory) with "myfile2.swf",
"/myfile2.swf", "./myfile2.swf". We wrote some javascript that
would determine the local HREF to get the path. All of those
methods WORK when the SWF file is on a server (e.g. "localhost").
None of them work when viewing the webpage (SWF) thru the
filesystem (e.g. "file:///D:/")
Does anyone have any thoughts on how to get around this
issue? (If my explanation of the problem is not clear I would be
happy to provide more info)
Thanks,
Randy

Hi there
It's possible. Could also be the Flash Security silently blocking the link. To see if that's the case, try what is outlined in the link below.
Click here
If that cures it, you have to consider a way past it for your users. One way past it is to use a small web server. The steps for that are below:
Download the Server2Go software from http://www.server2go-web.de/download/download.html
Choose the Micro package
This should result in receiving a zip file named distribute_apache1.3_micro.zip
Unzip the contents of the zip file to the root of your hard drive ( C:\ )
This should create a folder named distribute_apache1.3_micro
Open this folder and delete the following files and folders inside:
Files:
splash.bmp
logo.ico
readme.txt
Folders:
dlls
dbdir
cgi-bin
Open the htdocs folder and delete all files and folders inside.
Copy all of your Captivate output files to the htdocs folder
Rename the HTML page Captivate created to index.htm
Copy the contents of the distribute_apache1.3_micro folder to the CD-ROM and test!
Hopefully this was helpful... Rick
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