On 19/4/04 3:15 am, "Alan Neilsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ultimately, I want a Shockwave movie embedded in a web-page that
> will find the user's CD-ROM drive letter, and open a file from that drive.

Hi Alan,

Shockwave is a sandboxed environment.  You cannot obtain information about a
user's system from within a web-browser.  In particular, you cannot see what
local files are available, except those inside the "dswmedia" folder
alongside the Shockwave installation.

If you need to run movies from a CD-ROM, then you must use a projector. From
a projector, you can use the free FileXtra4 to list volumes and tell you
which of those volumes are CD-ROMs.

  <http://kblab.net/xtras/FileXtra4/>

Can you to provide the projector on the CD-ROM itself?  This might be the
simplest solution.

Cheers,

James

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