Opening a popup window from flash

Hi, I'm about to lose it--I've tried everything and nothing
seems to work! What I'm trying to do is open a pop-up window from a
swf that needs to have a certain height and width and no nav bar.
I've tried several techniques including putting javascript in the
containing html file and having nothing in the HTML file. If anyone
has any idea please let me know, thanks!

artboy_sf,
> Hi, I'm about to lose it--I've tried everything and
nothing seems
> to work! What I'm trying to do is open a pop-up window
from
> a swf that needs to have a certain height and width and
no nav bar.
I wonder if you're testing your efforts from the Flash
authoring tool.
With the Flash Player security sandbox, lately, you'll have
to upload to a
server to test in a browser.
> I've tried several techniques including putting
javascript in the
> containing html file and having nothing in the HTML
file. If
> anyone has any idea please let me know, thanks!
I wrote a tutorial on this -- both AS2 and AS3 -- not long
ago for
CommunityMX.com. It's a subscription site, and some of the
articles are
free, but this one isn't ... BUT ... you can sign up for a
free trial
subscription, check it out, then cancel if you like.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=F0639
If I reference an article in my forum replies, I normally
try to answer
with a tutorial from my blog (free), or one of the free CMX
articles, but I
imagine you've already Googled around a bit. The CMX tutorial
includes
sample files, and you really won't be out any money.
David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers
http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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