2 Replies Latest reply: Aug 10, 2011 8:49 AM by dan_hin RSS

    FScommand and projectors

    dan_hin Community Member

      Hi all,

       

      I've recently migrated from Director 10.1 (!!) to Flash. Been using AS3 for quite some time now in readiness for this terrible event so I'm not too bad with the syntax.

       

      One feature that seems to be missing from Flash is the ability to quickly and easily access external documents using their default applications. Both Director (natively) and the Xtra BuddyAPI provided this functionality for me.

       

      FScommand seems to nearly bridge the gap but there's the issue of the ugly cmd.exe popup when I run my batch file. And did I mention how annoying it is to have a .bat file for every document I need to open??

       

      I was doing this in Air (and the solution provided there is very Director-like) before I remembered there is no way to run an Air application as a standalone .exe file. There is simply no way that my client will be able to sanction admin rights for the hundreds of installs (across the country) that Air would require in order to function.

       

      Anyone have a solution for this? Surely there must be someone who has run into this before..

       

      For info the projector will be delivered via CD-ROM and I'm using Win7 64bit CS5 to author the project.

       

      Cheers,

      Dan