At 9:38 +0000 14/12/01, Linsey Miller wrote: >Hi there everyone, > >I wonder if anyone can help me out? > >I am running a shockwave movie locally and i have tried various ways of >trying to bring in text from an external file (FileIO, ImportText, filename >etc - all of which I later realised, do not work!) The only one that sort of >works is the getNetText function, however this will only work when the file >is on a web server and you use an http:// address to access it. However, >neither of these files are actually going to run on a server, so is there >any way I can run this locally? > >Also, it can't be a projector, it has to be a dcr file. > >I hope someone can explain this!
There is one local location where SW can read/write local text files: The prefs folder in the sys/Macr/sw folder, using getPref/setPref. Jakob [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!]
