I think you need to buy Buddy API - this does all sorts of clever things including opening Word documents. The site reference is:
www.mods.com.au
You can use 4 commands (I think) from the software for free.
Hope this helps - somone may have a better way
Missedit
In 2003 and presumably other versions - if you set your time scale to show say week numbers - all is well until you zoom in or out. The time scale goes back to the starting scale. Is there any way to stop this. We use this timescale all the time.
Many thanks for any help here
Missedit
Is it possible to show how far through a movie someone is. I have a series of frames they need to work through and wanted to show them graphiclly how far they are with the task
Many thanks for any help on this one
Can you use GetNetText to load a rtf file into a director project. I can get it to load a txt file into a window[ text file holds latest data viewer needs] but when I try with rtf file I just get header code for document. Any help much appreciated.
Is it possible to set a task which is not linked to other tasks to run the length of the project. If the project length changes so will the time allowed to complete the task will alter. A useful thing to be able to do but I can't see how to do it. The task could be linked to the last task in...
I need to open a pdf file from a folder on the cd. I have no problems with that -but can you do it if you have different pdfs in the folder say "materials" but the file name will be different depending on which set of notes you are burning to the cd. Filename could be word.pdf or access.pdf...
I have a flash button which when clicks brings an Open file dialogue MUI window up. This works no problems. If you click on a filename in this window the file will not open - if you right click and say open it will. Does the Mui OpenFile dialogue window only show file names? - but not allow...
Yes I have FileIO in the first and second scene - but the second scene isn't executed unless someone clicks that button. Its the one we talked about before in opening multiple text file - which works well ty
I have a movie that works perfeclty well when viewed in Director (MX2004). However, when it is played as a project an error Director Player error - Symbol expected <void> comes on screen. If you click yes to continue the whole works perfectly well. Any ideas?
Thanks for help
Thanks it now works - everything was wriiten as you said and files were in correct place - only problem is that when run it as a projector get a script error on screen - but it works. Also new to MX2004 how do you stop close max buttons appearing - used to be a check box for that.
Many thanks...
Actually this doesn't work.
It keeps stopping at this line
openFile(gtitle, the moviepath & "course" & i & ".txt", 1)
says it expects a text string.
Thanks for any help here
Phil
found
on startmovie me
gtitle = new(Xtra "FileIO")
openFile(gtitle, the moviepath &"course.txt", 1)
member("contents").text = readFile(gtitle)
closeFile(gtitle)
gtitle = 0
end
But can you read more than 1 file at a time
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