To: Jakob Hede Madsen thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!
-----Original Message----- From: Jakob Hede Madsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <lingo-l> getNetText, calling all aficionados! 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!] _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. [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!]
