any way to open Flash player

[Aceman]

Is there any way to have HTML or JavaScript open the Flash Player and run a movie?

Such as finding this SAFlashPlayer.exe on thier PC and then running it and opening a file i poses from the browser?

I mean, you know some websites have a link to where you click it and a player opens up and runs a movie. Well that is similar to what i want to do. The only difference is that i need the Flash Player to open so that the interraction works.

[AdamGundry]

AFAIK, all you can do is link to the file, and depending on how the browser is set up, it will either open the file in the same window (Flash plugin), open the file in Flash Player, or give the user the option to download and save the file.

You cannot run arbitrary programs with Javascript.

Adam