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xxxheeroxxx
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April 17, 2012
Question

opening a pdf file in a relative link / local

  • April 17, 2012
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Maybe this sounds simple.

But I get used to AS2 code to open  a pdf file like the code below:

getURL("pdfDocuments/pdfname.pdf","_blank")

As I search uncle Google I'm stuck to this as equivalent to getURL in AS2.

btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btnClick);

function btnClick(e:MouseEvent):void {

          navigateToURL( new URLRequest("pdfDocuments/pdfname.pdf"), "_blank");

}

But still it did'nt work.

Before in AS2 getURL working on mailto, pdf on a relative link and a typical url's.

But as to AS3 navigateToURL function only works on mailto and typical url.

Any tweaks to the code above, to get it to work? will much appreciated.

Thanks,

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Zainuu
Inspiring
April 17, 2012

var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();                                                   // create a new instance of the Loader class

var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("pdfDocuments/pdfname.pdf"); // in this case both SWFs are in the same folder

myLoader.load(url);                                                                             // load the pdf file

addChild(myLoader); 

sinious
sinious
Legend
April 17, 2012

I thought it worked the same myself until someone posted about it and I tested it. I tested all combinations of relative, full URLs, file:///, etc etc. It appears you simply cannot launch like that anymore.

If your SWF is in a HTML page then you can always let JavaScript do the work. Send an ExternalInterface call to JavaScript passing the relative path of the PDF and have it window.open() to it.

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xxxheeroxxxAuthor
Known Participant
April 18, 2012

any example sir or site that do the same?

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

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