playing swf file from desktop

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: playing swf file from desktop
started by: intecture

Posted by intecture on June 17 2005,05:17

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.

Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on June 17 2005,06:10

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.

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on June 17 2005,07:31

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

Posted by mikshaw on June 17 2005,16:14

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).