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1. Re: Importing file types?
Newsgroup_User May 5, 2006 5:16 AM (in response to Adamleeds)To open a file, you need to know the path to the application that will
open that file. Unfortunately, its not as simple as clicking on the file
and having the user's computer resolve the path to the app.
To find this path you'll need to use an Xtra. There are two that do this
well: Buddy API and fileXtra4.
You should also consider a strategy to use when the user doesn't have
the application that you need to use.
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2. Re: Importing file types?
Newsgroup_User May 5, 2006 2:22 PM (in response to Adamleeds)Things go smoothly if user's have acrobat reader and powerpoint player
as the registered apps, but if they have the authoring environments then
buddyAPI will cause (I think) the file to be opened for editing, the
user may have to manualy start the powerpoint playing.
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3. Re: Importing file types?
Newsgroup_User May 5, 2006 6:01 PM (in response to Adamleeds)On Fri, 05 May 2006 21:20:45 GMT, JB posted in macromedia.director.basics:
> Things go smoothly if user's have acrobat reader and powerpoint player
> as the registered apps, but if they have the authoring environments then
> buddyAPI will cause (I think) the file to be opened for editing, the
> user may have to manualy start the powerpoint playing.
>
> There is a free powerpoint player you can distrubute on the CD.
You can also open the file in presentation mode using baRunProgram and
command line switches.
Or save it from PowerPoint as a .pps file.
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