How to control other programs from director MX environment?

[tekeste]

Hallo guys:
Is there somebody to tell me how to control launching and controlling other programs from director mx environment like opening Ms word and control the user's activity on the word.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Director can launch an external application (lingo

open

), but this is usually useless as you need to specify the full path to the application.

Better way is to use BuddyAPI

baRunProgram

, which you won’t need to specify the full path and you can add command line parameter to let the application to perform certain task (e.g. print a file).

But the best way to control the external application is to use MasterApp. With MasterApp you can launch Word and type texts automatically, for example. Expect to write 100 lines of Lingo to do this, but definitely doable.

http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/doc/masterapp/mappusr.htm