Open local .swf from button click event

[Former Community Member]

Hi guys,

My brain is on holiday (again); i have been through this before but cant recall the outcome.

I have forms with buttons that will (if we ever get them completed) load user guides/help .swf files from our server.

We are using a simple:

app.launchURL("https://www.name.com/attachments/xyz1.swf", true)

click event to do this. works fine.

but some of the .swf's are big, and for anyone we do a custom setup for (which seems a long way in the future) we would like to be able to load the .swf's locally (internet is still slow where we are):

So, short question, can a livecycle pdf load/play a .swf locally (say from pdfswf.dir on c: for arguments sake) or is that a security issue? I know flash has issues with security in this area, but hoped livecycle would be ok with it.

thanks guys

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi,

I think you are going to come up against a security issue.

I tried:

app.launchURL("file:///....swf", true);

and

app.openDoc("path to file.swf");

Both threw up a security error in the Javascript Console. I tried changing settings in Acrobat preferences but could not get it to work.

"NotAllowedError: Security settings prevent access to this property or method.

App.launchURL:1:XFA:form1[0]:page1[0]:gotoURL4[0]:click"

Maybe some one will be able to shed better light on the problem.

Good luck,

Niall

[Niall_O_Donovan · Accepted solution]

Not sure whether this is an issue: http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2010/07/update_on_functionality_change.html

I am using Acrobat v9.3.3 here.

N.

[Former Community Member]

thanks Niall,

will have to work around i guess - to be of any use in the distributed form we'd need to be sure it would work for everyone....