External Documents

[Hedric3248]

Hi All

Cant seem to find this on a search.

I have some buttons and would like them to open various external .pdf .doc and other external files on the PC. Can't seem to find out how this works? any help appreciated.

[nivram]

Under Special in the event editor there is a "run external program". Just give the proper path.

Marv

[DavidN]

You can also use the "Open URL" action of the Vitalize object to open up a given file using the user's default program.

[nivram]

David, your idea is probably better. Forgot that one.

Marv

[Hedric3248]

Will give the Vitalize option a go... thank you both for the help.

[JimJam]

I'm having an issue with running external program. It won't work!

I have a line that is supposed to run another EXE at the start of frame, yet nothing happens. Even if I build the .mfa

Same problem with the File object. Won't run. What do I do?

[LB]

Are you doing it with the built-in action? NOT the file object or Vitalize object?

[JimJam]

Well, I don't know. I tried every single way and nothing worked.

I decided to just re make a new TEST application on my desktop that did nothing but launch MS Paint when pressing a button. It worked.

And as soon as that worked, my completely unrelated game application's EXE launching also worked...

Must have been a windows glitch?

[LB]

Um, the action ONLY works on exe files! To open other files use the Vitalize object.

[JimJam]

I was using only EXE files. Paint.exe and Game Engine.exe.