Need help with Director .. reading intxt files and report print

[roytheboy]

Hey peeps.

I really need help with

reading a txt file into director to populate tickboxes and text boxes. I have had this working before but on a director machine only ... would not work on another.

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I'm building a director application that runs as a standalone projector that has a lot of radiobuttons and checkboxes in. I have to be able to save these selections to a text file and for when the user revisted their previous selections are already selected!

I've managed to create a string with all the values of the selections in that looks something like this:

q1radio = YES
q2radio = NO
q3radio = NO
q1check = 0
q2check = 1
q3check = 0
q4radio = YES
q5radio = NO
q6radio = NO
q4check = 0
q5check = 0
q6check = 1

and once the string is complete I write it to text file using this:

setPref(VarNameofUser,mytextstring)

This all works fine! The problem is that when I use GetPref to retrieve the text file I don't know how to use the info to check/uncheck the relevent radio buttons. On another forum I have been suggested to split the string into an array. But I must be doing something wrong as I can't get it to work!

Has anyone got any suggestions?

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another thing

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I've got a movie with a print button that when its clicked I need it to print what on the screen on frames 20-25.

Looking at the Director Documnetation I think the PrintFrom method is capeable of doing this, but I can't get it to work.

OR

someone please suggest a way that I could get a printed report from these frames with dynamic content (I'm reading information from a text file)

Please help peeps... REALLY REALLY URGENT

THanks

R

 

[siestamedia]

ah right, I think I get you. Thanks for that. I'll have a little play, but I might have to pick your brain if I get stuck (if you don't mind)