Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 02/16/06 21:31

hol wrote:
> Hi Jonathan, thanks for the comments,
>
> The problem is that my customer wants the site visitors to be able to
> download his CV as a word file. This doesn't happen automatically but only
> when a user clicks the appropriate button on the main Flash site. This
> button opens an html page that loads the word document. As you can see I
> have to go through this procedure.

Why? In flash when you link a 'button' symbol to a URL is analogous
adding a href to a A element, right? What's the action script getURL(),
( been a while! ) and link it to the Word doc direcly so the browser
will treat as it would with a direct HTML link

<a href="pricelist.doc">Our Price List in MS Word200 format (1.2 MB)</a>

No need for external pages with auto popup windows,

OR

In the Flash have the button link to a download HTML page with your links

button.getURL('mydownloadpage.html')

and the mydownloadpage.html has plain links to docs as above.
<a href="pricelist.doc">Our Price List in MS Word200 format (1.2 MB)</a>


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Take care,

Jonathan
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