Hello everybody,

I know similar questions have been many times asked on this forum, and I've read them and tried the diffrent solutions proposed, without attaining my goal.

My goal is to launch a software some_software.exe with an executable projector created  with Flash in ActionScript 3.

The software some_software.exe must absolutely be in a sub-subfolder compared to the position of the projector launcher.

I've tried many things I read on this forum and others, like :

fscommand("exec","Products/some_software/some_software.exe")

or

fscommand("exec","./Products/some_software/some_software.exe")

or

fscommand("exec",".//Products/some_software/some_software.exe")

I know very well that it is said in Flash MX CS3's help file that the executable to launch some_software.exe must be in a fscommand folder.

I have tried :

fscommand("exec","Products/some_software/fscommand/some_software.exe")

with no more success.

I have also tried to launch some_software.exe in a sub-sub-folder from a batch file .bat.

During my direct tests while launching the batch file, this one containing :

@ echo off

start Products/some_software/some_software/some_software.exe

exit

The batch file worked fine, even with paths in the subfolders very deep.

But when I launch the .bat file indirectly, with the Flash projector, in which I wrote :

fscommand("exec","batch_file.bat")

the batch file seems to open very briefly the black MS-DOS subscreen, this subscreen disappearing immediately, and some_software.exe was never launched !

Did anyone have the same problem ? Were you able to make it work ?

If it's the case, many thanks by advance if you can show me a solution to my problems, or, even better, if you can propose the sources of your solution compressed in a .zip file !

Many thanks for your help,

Roland