i've commanded a button instance to get a url in a blank window.
can i control the properties of that window in flash. i want to
hide the tool bar, menu bar, etc.

if not, can i just edit the url that is retrieved with a javascript
to open with these bars hidden?

flash has in built javascript so what you need to to is basically use the javascript function

window.open(theURL,winName,features);

with javascript enabled you should be able to control the appearance of an opened window as well, though in my experience this does not work in every browser

so suggestion is to go for javascript inside flash

hope it helped

Airnine

thank you. i've researched and found the feature. true, it is
documented that it doesn't work in some earlier browsers. shouldn't be a problem since the browser versions are pretty
old. thanks for your help.