Thanks Mark and sean :)
We don't use director often, a few times a year at most. i just made a
mpeg player with it a while back that we could reskin with a clients
graphics when needed thats why i was looking for the free options first :).
Hopefully i can make it further customizable by just changing some settings
in a txt file.
Things like.
Showing out own splash screen.
Number of menu's and what video those buttons play. And make it simpler to
change.
and bascially make the product a little more professional for myself. (a
look at how i layed out the movie originaly makes me cringe now)
Cheers
Brendon
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark R. Jonkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:07 PM
Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Reading from an ini file
> Hi Brendon
>
> In todays day and age, you have additional options (some at no cost) that
> might perform better then reading ini files and parsing text. Depending on
> need, you might take a look at http://www.updatestage.com and see if you
can
> find a list saving xtra. I know they sell an xtra called vList ( its on
the
> very bottom of the left hand frame of the main page of their xtras
section).
> This is one hell of a nice xtra that can be used to read and save to lists
> in their native binary format. Since most reuseable data that you are
> looking at most likely will be internalized within Director as a list,
this
> option makes a lot of sense. It saves the hassles of dealing with
> differences cross platform differences and text parsing and all that
> stuff... just shove the data into a list and give it a filename and send a
> saveList command and your done.
>
> I've used this xtra for some time now and I have to say its been a
pleasure
> to work with.. not sure how I worked without it.
>
> (No I don't work for updatestage.. its just an excellent tool... and for
> what you described, I believe its free).
>
> Sincerely
>
> Mark R. Jonkman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brendon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: <lingo-l> Reading from an ini file
>
>
> I want to make my next director project a little more reuseable. i was
> wondering if any one had any links to sites or ini file reading
> functions
> that could help with storing settings externally. Do i need an xtra to
> read
> text/ini files of the same cd? i'd prefer not to.
>
> Cheers
>
> Brendon
>
>
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