• Registered: 2011-03-08
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Topic: Running Gallery on Local Machine

Hello,

I'm creating a project for which I need to run my gallery locally. The final project will NOT be hosted online. So far everything works well when I run it on my mac or throw it online. However, when I run the gallery locally on Windows, it's not opening the external links I specified in "gallery.xml."  In researching this problem, I've seen that this is common - security settings shut down the functionality when run locally, but work fine when the swf is accessed online.

Is there anyway to get around this? I NEED the gallery to work locally for this project. 

I appreciate any help you can provide.

Thanks for your time.

  • Registered: 2009-03-17
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Re: Running Gallery on Local Machine

I've seen that this is common - security settings shut down the functionality when run locally, but work fine when the swf is accessed online... Is there anyway to get around this? I NEED the gallery to work locally for this project.

I don't think you are going to find any joy on this one, as it wouldn't be much of a security measure if it could just be turned off. The other option would be to put the links into the HTML instead of the flash.

Mike Richards
SimpleViewer Support Team.
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Re: Running Gallery on Local Machine

However, when I run the gallery locally on Windows, it's not opening the external links I specified in "gallery.xml."

Try using a different browser or tweaking the security settings in the browser.

Felix Turner
SimpleViewer Support Team.

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  • Registered: 2011-03-08
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Re: Running Gallery on Local Machine

Mike Richards wrote:

it wouldn't be much of a security measure if it could just be turned off.

Ha, good point ;)

Thank you both for your feedback. I ended up embedding the gallery swf into a second swf, through which I was able to create functioning links. Success!