Open a PDF-file in director.Can somebody help me?

[Fien_vdh]

Dear everybody,

My name is Fien and I'm from Belgium.
English is not my first language, so I hope I don't make to many mistakes.

I have a question about Director... please, can somebody help me out?

I have a button in director and I want to link it to a pdf-file.
So... when you click on the button, acrobat opens and opens the right
pdf-file...

I think it's very simple but I can't find the right script...

I used this script but it doesnt' work... :(

on mouseDown
baOpenFile("R300-EN.pdf","maximised")
end


If somebody knows the answer... please keep it simple because I don't know a
lot about director...
(shame on me) :)



Greetz and thank you for your time!!!



Fien

[Diego]

on mouseDown
baOpenFile(the moviePath & "your_PDF_folder_name/" &
"R300-EN.pdf","maximised")
end

--
Diego
[url]http://dmzone.it[/url]


"Fien_vdh" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:c6iobo$nco$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Dear everybody,
>
> My name is Fien and I'm from Belgium.
> English is not my first language, so I hope I don't make to many

mistakes.

>
> I have a question about Director... please, can somebody help me out?
>
> I have a button in director and I want to link it to a pdf-file.
> So... when you click on the button, acrobat opens and opens the right
> pdf-file...
>
> I think it's very simple but I can't find the right script...
>
> I used this script but it doesnt' work... :(
>
> on mouseDown
> baOpenFile("R300-EN.pdf","maximised")
> end
>
>
> If somebody knows the answer... please keep it simple because I don't

know a

> lot about director...
> (shame on me) :)
>
>
>
> Greetz and thank you for your time!!!
>
>
>
> Fien
>

[Mark A. Boyd]

"Fien_vdh" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in news:c6iobo$nco$1
@forums.macromedia.com:

> on mouseDown
> baOpenFile("R300-EN.pdf","maximised")
> end

As Diego noted, you need to supply the full path to the file. Diego did
so by utilizing 'the moviePath' system property.

If you check the results returned by Buddy API functions, you might
notice that the above returns a 2. According to the Buddy API Help file,
that means "File was not found" which might lead you to the "full path to
the file" information in the Help file.

Here is a very basic example of how you can use those return codes:

on mouseUp me
OK = baOpenFile(the moviePath &"R300-EN.pdf","maximised")
if OK < 32 then
-- ERROR
alert "Error opening file" &RETURN &"Error =" &&OK
end if
end

Of course, you could use baMsgBox instead of alert. And you could create
a lookup table from the help file to display plain English error messages
insead of a number.

Oh crap, you've cross-posted. Ah well, I already had this written before
I noticed it, so I'll go ahead and post it.


--
Mark "Netiquette has gone to the dogs" Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin'

[Fien_vdh]

Thanx a lot for helping me out!!

(sorry for cross-posting it... i didn't knew which topic was the right one.)


Other question:
How do you link a button to your outlook express.

Like: [email]info@macromedia.com[/email]

When you click on it, it should open your mailbox in outlook and fills in the
right emailaddress...

Fien x x

[Mark A. Boyd]

"Fien_vdh" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in
news:c6qanj$om7$1@forums.macromedia.com:

> Thanx a lot for helping me out!!

Gladly.

> (sorry for cross-posting it... i didn't knew which topic was the
> right one.)

Keep-On-Learnin' :)

> Other question:
> How do you link a button to your outlook express.

You don't. You delete outlook express from your system entirely ;-)

I see you started a new thread for this question, so I'll give a more
helpful reply there.


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