write text files from shockwave movie?

[Christian Grass]

Hello,

I wonder if its possible that a shockwave movie writes temporary textfiles
on the hard disk. Or is it just like I think it is, namely that it's
encapsulated within the browser's shockwave-plugin and therefore has no
right to do so?!

Thank you for any hint.

[Christian Grass]

Hello,

I wonder if its possible that a shockwave movie writes temporary textfiles
on the hard disk. Or is it just like I think it is, namely that it's
encapsulated within the browser's shockwave-plugin and therefore has no
right to do so?!

Thank you for any hint.

[alchemist]

search for setPref and getPref in your help files.


"Christian Grass" <someone@something.net> wrote in message
news:oprzr9na10i5yru5@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hello,
>
> I wonder if its possible that a shockwave movie writes temporary textfiles
> on the hard disk. Or is it just like I think it is, namely that it's
> encapsulated within the browser's shockwave-plugin and therefore has no
> right to do so?!
>
> Thank you for any hint.

[Christian Grass]

Hello,

thank you for your answer.

I've done this now and it seems that it could be a possibility for what I
want to do. But I have one more question. In the help files it says that
those text files will be created in a folder named "Prefs" within the
plugin folder of my web browser. Now I have been desperately searching for
this folder and also the textfile name I gave as a parameter. I can't find
it anywhere on my computer. I turned off "hide invisible files/folders"
etc. and also looked for it in the personal profile ("documents and
settings" / "my files" folders). WTF???? Where is this folder???

I have to know if such text files are stored within the user's system
profile ("Documents and Settings" / "My Files") or not.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

[Christian Grass]

Hello,

thank you for your answer.

I've done this now and it seems that it could be a possibility for what I
want to do. But I have one more question. In the help files it says that
those text files will be created in a folder named "Prefs" within the
plugin folder of my web browser. Now I have been desperately searching for
this folder and also the textfile name I gave as a parameter. I can't find
it anywhere on my computer. I turned off "hide invisible files/folders"
etc. and also looked for it in the personal profile ("documents and
settings" / "my files" folders). WTF???? Where is this folder???

I have to know if such text files are stored within the user's system
profile ("Documents and Settings" / "My Files") or not.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

[Dave Mennenoh]

>>Where is this folder???

Search for the file using Find... like hit Start-F together.

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Dave
[url]http://www.blurredistinction.com/director[/url]

[Christian Grass]

That's the point. I've already done this. When I said I've been searching
for it I meant I used the Find function of Windows. That's why I'm
wondering where it is. Does anyone know where these files SHOULD be
located?!

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 08:39:51 -0600, Dave Mennenoh <dmennenoh@wi.rr.com>
wrote:

>>> Where is this folder???

>
> Search for the file using Find... like hit Start-F together.
>

[Mark A. Boyd]

On 07 Dec 2003, Christian Grass <someone@something.net> wrote:

> That's the point. I've already done this. When I said I've been
> searching for it I meant I used the Find function of Windows. That's
> why I'm wondering where it is. Does anyone know where these files
> SHOULD be located?!

It depends on which OS and the runMode (and possibly which browser) you're
testing in. Of course, if you've never issued a setPref command or visited
a site that issues a setPref command, you won't find that folder anywhere.

FYI, running in a browser on this Win2K system, the path is
[drive]:\WINNT\system32\Macromed\Shockwave 8\Prefs

In authoring mode it lands in
[drive]:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director 8.5\Prefs

The nice thing about it is that you don't have to know the path at all,
Shockwave does it all for you.


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

[Christian Grass]

Thank you very much!

That's exactly what I wanted to know. I found the files. But why the f@!+*
could windows not find it?! I will check this out. But anyways - thanks!!!

chris

[Mark A. Boyd]

On 07 Dec 2003, Christian Grass <someone@something.net> wrote:

> Thank you very much!

I forgot to mention that I only tested this when logged in with
Administrator priveleges. You may want to test with restricted users to
determine where the folder is created - again on various operating systems.

> That's exactly what I wanted to know. I found the files. But why the
> f@!+* could windows not find it?!

Dunno. It worked for me.


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