At 3:07 PM -0400 9/3/02, you wrote:
>On 9/3/02 2:58 PM, "Thomas Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> decreed
>thusly:
>
> > GetNetText works great in Shockwave
AND,
getNetText() also works fine from a projector, even on local files ..
& I just tried a text file with garbage type/creator ,named '.xml' &
it worked fine.
>Yeah....ok, here's the thing....
>
>This isn't a shockwave app - it's just a projector, trying to set a text
>member's contents to a local - right next to the projector - file. I'm
>merely doing this as a proof of concept for a company that want to use the
>same functionality on their website. I've already done this app for Pearson
>(hey Kerry).
>
>It really was supposed to be a 5 minute hack to show them how it works
here's the 30 second demo:
put the xml file next to the movie
getNetText ((the moviePath) & "your.xml")
member("field") = netTextresult()
>, so
>it's odd that the ole switches the xml from a text member to an ole member.
& that's as designed -
set the filename destroys any existing member & then Dir guesses what .XML is.
For example, try setting the filename on a linked bitmap to a
soundfile - the bitmap gets blown away ...
hth
-Buzz
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