director help
director help
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You can use a third party extra such as BuddyAPI.
http://www.mods.com.au/budapi/
and work out if the end user has Acrobat Reader installed. Works using the 'file association'. Also its cross platform (Mac & PC).
Usage --- (as Behaviour)
on StartAcrobat, p_PDFFile
if ( baFileExists( p_PDFFile ) = 1 ) then -- check if file exists
set AcroExe = baFindApp( "pdf" ) -- see if acrobat is installed
if AcroExe "" then
baOpenFile( p_PDFFile , "Maximised" )
else
-- throw error msg here.
end if
end if
end StartAcrobat
Hope this helps.
Director doesn't smell too bad - esp. seeing as their releasing a better version of it soon...personally I can't wait!
But, then again, I am a multimedia freak.
:)