Opening a file through Javascript or any other code!? possible?

[Mystical_Ice]

I'm actually making a desktop for myself and some friends in Flash, and the "icons" on the desktop are going to be animated buttons... when i click a button, i want a folder or file to open... but apparently with the Flash plugin calling to an external file is disabled, for security reasons... which makes sense.

I want to know if there's any way around this. For instance, could i call a Javascript script in a HTML file through Flash which would in turn open a file?

Is there any way to do this

Thanks

[BillyRay]

You can access files in JS using the FileSystemObject ActiveX control, but that will limit you to IE only.

Then again - what do you mean by "open" a file? Read from it, execute it, view it, or something entirely different?

Hope this helps,
Dan

[Mystical_Ice]

well i'd like it to actually OPEN a file.

like for instance, if i set one of the icons to call a javascript script that opens c:/documents and settings/me/desktop/file01.txt

so when i click the icon, file01.txt will pop open. also then it's fairly easy to just edit the javascript file (that Flash calls to) if i want to change the location of a file it opens.

you understand what i'm saying? i'm stumped, but i'd really like to get this to work :)

Thanks a lot
~Lorenzo

[Exuro]

Sorry, but I don't think that it's possible to do what you're wanting through the browser without the little "Open/Save As" dialog box popping up.