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Hi I created a director movie that opens .avi movies on the click of a button. It works fine as a projector, using the open vid.avi with camplay.exe, command. But when I publish it as a shockwave and click the appropriate button, I get an error "Unsupported lingo command #open". What command...

Hi all I'm creating shockwave menu so that when the user clicks a button, another shockwave file opens. When I try it out in Director, on clicking the button I get an error message 'Cannot open the file'. When I use the menu to open a normal html file, the file opens as expected. I'm using...

Hi all I would like some assistance with this: I have a Director movie with buttons when I click the buttons I would like to open Flash quizzes. Each quiz was created using a quiz software so each flash quiz is created to work along with some other supporting files stored in the same published...

Hi all, I created a menu screen. When the user clicks a button it opens a MIAW. How can I hide the main spawning movie when the MIAW opens and show it again after the MIAW closes. Any help will be appreciated.

Hi all I can't seem to remember how to do this: I have a report that has a table as its record source. I would like each record to be displayed on a separate page of the report. Don't matter what I try, each page of the report displays multiple records from the database table. Any help will be...

Hi all I have a form that I'm creating. I would like the user to select categories from a combo box and after this I would like the record source for another combo box to change according to the entry selected. So the selections available on the second combo depends on the first. Any ideas I'm...

Hi I make a selection with a combo box and a numeric value (data type single) is entered into a text box. When I try to use the value in the text box in a calculation, it comes out incorrect because it sees the value as a string. Any ideas. e.g. 100 + 100 = 100100

Hi all I have a combo box that is updating text boxes on a form and after the user makes their selections a button is clicked and the sum of the numbers in the text boxes are found. My problem is that although the information selected from the combo box is a number (this comes from a table)...

Hi all, I have a form in which the user fills out text boxes and clicks a button and all the information is committed to a table. Presently, every time I click the button the information is entered in the first record of the table only, I can't seem to get the information into new records. What...

Hi all I need some help with this. I'm creating a form to allow a user to build their own computer. When the user chooses an item on the combo box the image changes according to the item chosen. e.g if they choose a case the specific image shows up next to it. I can't get the image to change...

Hi all. I have a director movie and when I click a button I would like to play an .avi movie using a specific player which I'm distributing together with the movie. I'm running into some problems, I can't get the moviePath command to work with lingo's open command so as to specify the absolute...

Hi all. I would like my director movie to open a text file that is in a subfolder higher up the directory tree rather than lower down. Is there a way to do this using a relative path? I don't want to specify the absolute path to the linked files. e.g the movie may be in D:\files\OpenText.dir and...

Hi all I have a projector into which I embedded some fonts using the following commands: Insert>Media Element>Font. After I embedded the fonts, all the spaces between the words in the movie shows up as square boxes. How can I fix this?

Hi all, I have a projector that I'm using as a menu, when I click buttons on the projector I want to open other projectors and close this menu projector. What is the best way to accomplish this? I tried the following statements before but they only worked while playing the menu movie in director...

Hi all I have a database created in Access 2002 with a table called tblStudent with the fields, FirstName, LastName , Address and Class. I'm creating a search form so that the user can enter the student's LastName and the database will pull up the student's info. I tried to do this but although...

Hi all I would like to embed some WMA or AVI video files into my projector. I tried importing these files before I compiled the projector but when I played the projector on another computer it could not find the video files. How could I embed these files so that the host computer does not need...

Hi I would like to import buttons from Macromedia Flash MX, into Macromedia Director MX, in order to use it in a director movie. The flash buttons from the Macromedia Flash library are much more varied and nicer than the standard button in Director. How can I do this. Thanks in advance.

Hi can anyone help. I have an app written using Access 2003, a particular form in the app uses windows API functions in addition to the VBA. This form does not open on win 98 or win 2000 operating systems, although Access 2000 is installed. It opens in win ME and XP with Access 2000. I...

Hi I created a CD-ROM menu using a flash projector but when the user clicks on the Full Screen menu option that is visible on the Flash player 7, the screen is not able to minimise again. How can I disable the view Full Screen option in the flash player or how can I disable the flash menus...

Hi all I have an app I created using Access XP and whenever I open the app in Access 2003 I always get 3 annoying error messages stating the following: "Do you want to block unsafe expressions" "Unsafe expressions are not blocked...." "The file may not be safe...Do you want to open this file" Is...