Hi, I'm a new user to Director 8. My company purchased it for marketing a few months ago and I've been the guy who was put in charge of it. We've been using it to create an interactive dossier that can be handed to our clients on CD and used as a presentation tool. Today my boss tells me he wants me to create a way of opening a Powerpoint slideshow from within the dossier so that he can address specific points of interest for each potential client without having to rewrite a lot of the shockwave application. I consulted the books that came with Director 8 and thought that I figured it out but got nowhere. I was trying to use the OPEN command but it kept saying that the file I was trying to open was an undeclared variable. Is there anything special I have to do with the open command? I've tried using the help system and refering to the Director handbook and Lingo dictionary but they just supply the basic syntax with no good practical samples. If anybody has any ideas, and could supply some sample code, I'd be eternally grateful. 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!]
