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I have quite a few input boxes in my publication with variables. These variable retain input while the programme is running but are lost onece the publication closes. Is there any way of storing the information in the variable for retrieval later or and printout at a later date. Would be grateful for any help on this. Urgent

des

des,

Lars_13 answered your question at the following link. See it for storing information.

viewtopic.php?t=3061

Thanks to everybody for your help Some of the suggestions have been a great help. I have placed the variable in text and am able to view its contents there. However I am not able to save the information so that I can recover it later for viewing and printing. Could anybody simplify the process for me. More manageable steps would be great. I can do some basic scripting with triggers and actions but nothing complicated,
Please Help if you can
Thanks,
Des

des

have a look at the attached file. I suggest that you look at it and then publish to create an exe file to test. It will (should) create the file "write_line.txt" in the same folder as your exe file.

You should note that the text file included in the attached zip is not the one used by the published file, it was use for testing by me.

Hope it helps.

I have tried saving variable information to a windows temp file in windows temp folder. This is a notepad folder. When I check to see what has been saved all i can see is text input 500 or some other number depending on the number of the text input box. I would really like to solve this problem as it is such an important part of my publication. I have tried solutions offered by others particularly by Lars but to no avail. Perhaps someone could help me. I have attached an imp file in the hope that this may help. I am not an advanced scripter but can do some work with triggers and actions



My specs are Opus 05 Windows xp RAM 500 MB HD 40GB

Des, the only thing I see your text file (testOpus_011.txt) is the names of the Text Input boxes.

Look at Page 2 of the attached imp that you uploaded earlier. I changed 3 Properties, 2 Actions and added 2 variables.
see the storage action I added to
Text Input 500
Text Input 500(2)

next look at the Action applied to Button 102 the "Next" button

This bottom saves the information entered in Text Input 500 and text Input 500(2) to a text file located the OS's temp folder. On my XP system this is:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp\store.txt

Open the imp I've uploaded in Opus
Enter text into: Text Input 500 and Text Input 500(2)
Click the Next Button
Hit escape

Navigate to your OS's temp folder and look for the file store.txt. If you can't find the file do a search for it. What ever you entered in the two input boxes should be seen in store.txt

On my system the text I've entered in the two input boxes shows.

Forgot to add the IMP file in the previous post.

Thanks for the help Leo. I have done as you advised. I have entered text and clicked next, I have searched for the store.txt file without success using the search facility. Is there anything else I can do
I would really like to solve this problem. As its been dragging on.
Thanks Again
Des

Leo has already solved this problem for you -- the example he gave you works.
store.txt is put into the temp directory with the required variables in it.

Paul

des,

It seems that the imp file I uploaded still had reference to several action you had set in the pub. I fixed the problem and have created a zip file with a new imp file. I also included a copy of the store.txt file was created on my cpu just for you to look at, plus a screenshot showing where the store.txt file is placed.

NOTE: I've included a imp file named: read.imp
this will read the first 6 lines from the text file store.txt. It looks for the file in the system's temp folder.
Again my path is: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp\store.txt

1: Run the pub in Opus
2: enter text in the 6 ALL input boxes
3: click the Next button
4: on the "Next" page exit the program

Now, run the read.imp file. It your file store.txt is where the read.imp pub looks it will read the lines created with: Text Input Boxes.imp

If it don't locate the file, search for it and change the path (location) in the read.imp file.

I hope the above solves the problem. I just want to add that these to imp files work as expected on my system.