Other Help Topics :: playing swf file from desktop

i created an icon.png and icon.lnk.

but i dunno how to link it. here's the code:

Code Sample

table Icon
Type: Program
Caption: ProjeX Demo
Command: mainpage.swf
Icon: .xtdesktop/flashicon.png
X: 32
Y: 262
end

i put the mainpage.swf at the .xtdesktop . i have installed flash player.

pls help. thx in advanced.

You'd need to pipe it to Firefox somehow, don't know the syntax for opening firefox with a specific file. Not sure if you can pipe in a pure swf file, may need to embed it in html for the commandline method to work.

Think it may be something like
"firefox /home/dsl/flashdemo.html"
(if flashdemo.html is stored in your home/dsl directory).

I think. Maybe.

The flash player is the firefox plugin, not a stand-alone one. Might want to investigate the "autohide" extension for firefox (ie. a firefox extension, not a DSL one), it allows you to have pages in fullscreen or "kiosk" mode, so you don't actually see the browser itself, depending on settings.

/usr/local/bin/firefox -a firefox -remote 'openURL(/path/to/file)'

you can also download gflashplayer, which is a standalone player. It's only version 6, but I used it a lot before the v7 plugin came out (gflashplayer was MUCH better than the v6 plugin).

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