This is something I didn't consider. Just goes to show you might think you
know allot. But it's never the case.

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: bounce-flash_programming-281797@p...
[mailto:bounce-flash_programming-281797@p...]Per conto di Mark
Carr
Inviato: mercoledì 6 dicembre 2000 10.58
A: Flash Programming
Oggetto: [flash_programming] Re: Flash project - Word documents acting
as internet downloads?


Hi,

I've had a search about for some possible ideas into what may be causing it.
I think it might have something to do with the operating system's MIME
settings for '.doc' files and how it handles them.

See the following link:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q170/8/02.asp

Hope this helps




"Ruben Mafura" <r.mafura@p...> wrote in message
news:22941@f..._programming...
>
> Ellow Terinta,
>
> I know Xactly what u mean,...i've run into the same weird reaction myself.
> I' don't know why but i'll ask around. Now that u mention it, i'm pretty
> curious also as to why this happens. It's disturbing and it creates
doubts.
>
> I'll let u know a.s.a.p. if i find an answer.
>
> Regards back 2 u
> RuupY
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Carr [mailto:markc@w...]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 2:37 PM
> To: Flash Programming
> Subject: [flash_programming] Flash project - Word documents acting as
> internet downloads?
>
>
> From: Terinta [mailto: area_four4@h...]
> Sent: 4 December 2000 22.10
> To: Wrox
> Subject: Flash project - Word documents acting a internet downloads?
>
> Hello,
>
> (I'll start with a mini background story)
> About 6 months ago I used Flash4 to create an interactive CD.
>
> Not being very experienced in Flash4 (learning while I was working) at the
> time, I was not sure how to implement a system where the customer could
> print out what they were seeing on the screen, so I set up a folder of
word
> documents containing the information for each page (the hard way I know
> better now:)
>
> I set up a button on each page in my flash project so that when the reader
> clicked on this button it would open up the word document containing what
> they were looking at and they would print out from within word.
>
> This was tested out on many computer systems with success, and after
6months
> and 3000 CD's later without problems reported, I get my first call for
help
> and I don't have a clue into what may be going wrong.
>
> Basically this one person out of 3000 is having this problem:
>
> When they click on the button that I have set up, that is linked to the
word
> document, instead of it opening the word document in word straight away,
as
> it does for everyone else. It brings up a box asking whether you want to
> 'save to disk' or 'open from location' (ie. the same box you get if you
were
> downloading a file from the internet). If they choose 'save to disk' they
> say that nothing is saved, and 'open from location' brings up Internet
> Explorer with a blank page.
>
> I've confirmed that they have Word 97 (at testing stage it was
successfully
> tested with Word Pad, Word 97 and Word 2000)
>
> Thanks for your time if you have any Ideas? (I would guess that it is some
> sort of system setting somewhere?)
>
> regards
> Terinta
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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