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


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