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From: coocooforcocoapuffs on 5 Apr 2008 07:16
[q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]Newsgroup User[/b][/b][/i]
Sorry, I garbled that last line.

As a test, if you open the message window (Ctrl+M) type the line

open the moviePath & "content.exe"

and press Enter, it should open your executable. This does have to be a
movie you have saved, because for new movies

the moviePath = ""

Are you asking WHERE this code needs to ultimately reside? If so, you
will have to give some more info. Do you need it to execute when the
user clicks some object? Or after your animation plays? Or what?
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Ha! I had no idea lingo had such natural language, but the test does work! u
rock. I just applied to a sprite with a mouse up action and bam, it works. But
testing on a mac intel is not so easy, as Director does now communicate with at
all with Parallels Desktop, but that's okay, I tried with .app and it works it
works...saved my butt.

I guess some day if I ever have to do support macs with my deliverables, I
will have to figure out some lingo that says:
if its a mac, open content.app
or else open content.exe
but that's not for a while:)

cheers


open the moviePath & "content.exe"
.
thats all I get, but I bet it has something to do with being on a


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