I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. But you can easily extract the name using the itemdelimiter. (It's all in the help) on gimmeMyName me aName = the movieName pOldDelim = the itemDelimiter the itemDelimiter = "." put item 1 of aName the itemDelimiter = pOldDelim end -- Vid1 As for the rest... again, not sure what you're trying to do. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Brendon > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 4:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: <lingo-l> Current Movie Filename > > > How would i go about getting the filename of the current movie without the > extension? > > For example vid1.dxr is playing if i could get the vid1 part i > could make > it look for vid1.mpg without reprotecting the movie. > > if i renamed it to vid2.dir or whatever i would want to return "vid2" > > Making sense? > > > Cheers > > Brendon > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
