Launching Apps

[calan@mighty.co.za webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I have read through the blurb on opening an exe from director, however, it gives me a script error when trying this. I have tried all of the following:

on mouseDown me
open "1.exe"
end

on mouseDown me
open 1.exe
end

Neither of these seem to work, could anyone let me know the code. Does the file need to be in something like the FSCOMMAND folder that Flash MX now requires?

Please help.
Cheers.

[Mark A. Boyd]

On 01 Dec 2003, "calan@mighty.co.za" [email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

> I have read through the blurb on opening an exe from director,
> however, it gives me a script error when trying this. I have tried all
> of the following:

What does the script error say?

> on mouseDown me
> open "1.exe"
> end

You might try adding the moviePath

open the moviePath &"1.exe"


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Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)

[calan@mighty.co.za webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

All files are in the root of the cd so there isn't one.

I must be an idiot as, bizarely, I'm not new to this but am stumped on something as simple as this.

[Mark A. Boyd]

On 01 Dec 2003, "calan@mighty.co.za" [email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

> All files are in the root of the cd so there isn't one.

But there is. That path might be G:\, but it still counts as a path. The
advantage of using 'the moviePath' is that it will return the full path to
the projector or movie - you don't need to know ahead of time what that
path might be.

> I must be an idiot as, bizarely, I'm not new to this but am stumped on
> something as simple as this.

Actually, open is the idiot here. It has no return code to inform you of
success/failure. I recommend using a 3rd party Xtra instead of Lingo's
'open'.

Buddy API, DirectOS, FileXtra, and possibly others all have return codes
for their equivalent run program methods. Links to all of them can be found
on The Mile-High Table O'Products at [url]http://www.updatestage.com[/url]



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Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)