macromedia players flash: I recently downloaded flash and shockwave. I can view flash demos on your site
but a friend is sending me a file with a .swf. When I try to open it I get the
error message"This file does not have a program assockaited with it for
performing this action. Create an association in the folder options control
panel." I checked this folder and I find .swf and it says shockwave files.
Now what? I am not a computer person so bear that in mind....

if on PC/Win, try simply drag&dropping the file to an open internet
browser window (works form me with IE6, under winXpProSP2)

hth

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Ned

When I did what you suggested I got the error message: "Windows can not open
this file. To open this file you need to know what program created it.
Windows can go online and look up automatically or you can manually select from
a list of programs on you computer." If I let the computer look for the
program it takes me to a link for the macromedia site to download flash. If I
chose to look for the program manually macromedia flash/shockwave does not
appear on the list.??? I can't remember if I said so in my first post but I
can go to the macromedia site and play the test movie to show that flash was
installed.

mvvet wrote :

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did you drop the swf on the _icon_ of the browser or inside the browser
window ?

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this means that you browser (which one ?) can display flash embedded in
html pages.
What you are looking for is the standalone player, which is distributed
with Flash Authoring Environnement, I'm not sure you can legally get it
without buying F.A.E.
But drag&dropping into a browser _window_ should work

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Ned

I dropped the swf onto an open web page. I use IE6. The address of the swf
file appeared in the address window of the tool bar and when I click "go" is
when I get the error message that windows can not open it. This file came to
me as an attachment to an email. Is it possible I have something (filter??)
that changes this file as it enters my email?

did you try with another swf ?
if it works with another swf, all I can guess ist that the one you
received by mail is corrupted. This happen with mail attachments. That's
why using zip (or other archive) format is interesting : it includes CRC
and other methods that can detect and sometimes auto-repair wrongly
transmitted bits.

hth
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Ned