projector button link to .pdf file (macintosh)

[zoomfreddy]

Cheers!!!

[ljones]

For testing purposes do you have to burn a CD. I wrote the script and ran it, works great, but if I make a projector keeping everything in the same location, I get nothing. One more question: what if you have multiple pdf's? Do you have to write a script for each pdf and if so how can you do that if the script and the image disk names are suppose to be the same? If my image disk is named iDisk and my script is also named iDisk which opens mypdf01.pdf, how would I open mypdf02.pdf? Does this make sense, please excuse my ignorance...

Best regards...
Lance

[zoomfreddy]

you just need to mount the image disk you made to do the tests (and run proyector inside disk image.... you can use "disk copy" to make the image disk as write/read, so all changes are made fast).

...update, you can use paths to folders as..


fscommand ("exec", ":folder:the AppleScipt");

...this works well...

and...you will have to do a applescript for each file you want to open (because you can't change the applescript when is burned on cd)

but you can make the path be dynamic...in flash...

hope this helps.

[ljones]

zoomfreddy,

Thank you so much for your reply! So, if I understand you correctly, if I had ten pdf's each of those scripts would be in the same image disk but in they're own folders. Is that correct? If so, you, my friend, are a life saver!

Best regards...
Lance

[ljones]

zoomfreddy,

Everything worked out great doing it the way you suggested, a thousand thanks. I was first trying this method using MX and much to my disappointment it didn't work. I tried all sorts of various combinations, but nothing. So I tried in F5 and tadda, worked exactly as anticipated. I was wondering if you or anyone else had tried it in MX and whether that was successful. Another thing I noticed in MX, when I made it fullscreen my freakin movie clips were not visible, they were visible in the swf however, bizarre. This is all on the MAC side, so if anyone has experienced this, I'd be interested in hearing about it and if there were solutions to these issues.

Best regards...
Lance

[zoomfreddy]

good that it worked for you!!!

In the flash MX player the "exec" command is blocked for security reasons...we will need to use flash5 to keep doing this stuff...

and haven't made a full test on flash MX, is having troubles with fonts...crap...

[Naybobian]

Hi all,

Just curious if anybody found a way to launch PDF's via the Flash MX player on Mac? I've learned alot about it in this thread and found it is easy to accomplish in Flash 5 uing applescript, however i don't see why macromedia wouldn;t simplyfy the process in Flash MX. It just dosen't make sence or does it? Thanks

[Kraken]

http://www.were-here.com/forums/show...ight=fscommand

answered by Macromedia employee Mike Chambers:

from:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/f...x_errata03.html

fscommand
Revised usage for fscommand exec command:

The exec command can contain only the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, period ()., and underscore (_). The exec command runs in the subdirectory fscommand only. In other words, if you use the fscommand exec command to call an application, the application must reside in a subdirectory named fscommand.

it is always a good idea to check out:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/

when something doesn't work as expected.


mike chambers

mesh@macromedia.com

So, you can still do fscommands, they just have to be located in a folder called "fscommand" in the same directory as your flash projec tor. Should work a treat.

Are there any more resources for creating applescripts? I mean, what sort of info can you get about the computer which it's running on? OS? Screen res? is it a G3? Write to a text file?

[mactrix]

I was wondering, if anybody here can help me to use global variables with flash. The thing is that I'm using a variable name "Wheretogo" and I want to use it all over my flash project but it doesn't seem to work. any help?

P.S. I dont want to use textfields as variable ( I know they are) besides they make my flash movie look ugly.


Thanks in advance

[zoomfreddy]

i guess you can use "_global" to make all your variables available,if this don't work, use "shared ojects" all this works if you are in Flash MX...