>Hi there,
> >I wonder if anyone can help, I am building a training movie which is run
> >from a CD , however I was wondering is there any way that I can have the
> >user make notes while the Movies are playing and later refer to them from
> >within the movie environment. I was thinking of some sort of text file
that
> >is saved on the users hard drive and is available for reading and
amending
> >whenever the movie is playing. This would be an alternative to the user
making hardcopy notes.
Hi Leah, many thanks for your quick response to my question. You are of
course correct about the Prefs item but the only example I can find using
this is not very user friendly, that is to say the adding of files is too
scrappy and a bit hit or miss. I have tried to find another example but to
no avail. I have however found an example using FileIO at the Macromedia
website which looks and feels more the way I want but unfortunately the text
file is stored in the same directory as the movie which is no good as the
movies are running from CD. The line causing me grief is
filePath = the moviePath & "My Notes"
is there anyway that I can save the file to a folder outside of the movie on
the users hard drive. Also if anyone has an example of this and could either
email me or point me in the direction of an example I would be eternally
grateful, ideally I would like a box where text can be entered or deleted
with a simple open and close dialogue box. I am a bit of an idiot when it
comes to this kind of thing and unless I can see the thing working I find it
really hard to grasp so a quick explanation goes right over my head. When
working I can then adapt things to suit me.
In anticipation of your answers
Many thanks
Ron (Newport, Gwent, South Wales, UK)
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