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I'm producing a multimedia that a salesperson will run on his laptop in a meeting with a potential customer.

On the first page of the multimedia, there's two buttons.... "Presentation" and "Customise".

If they click "Customise" (which they'd do before a meeting) they can fill in the customer's name and title. This would be saved to c:/temp/presentation.txt

Then when they're in the meeting, they click on Presentation, and the first screen says "Presentation to Joe Bloggs, Large Financial Organisation"

Fine.

BUT: They might just only have a company name, or no info at all... in which case the first screen would need to be skipped.

I could do this with variables if the customisation was to be done at the same time as the presentation, but it won't be... it'll be done the day before when the salesman is preparing for his meeting.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks, Linda

Hi Linda

if(FileExists("c:\\temp\\presentation.txt "))
{
//set variables here
}
else
{
GotoPage("pagename")
}

HTH
Chris

Chris,

Thanks for the prompt response.... brilliant.

I've not done any multimedia work for a couple of months (we had a big video and web project to complete) so I've forgotten too much.... I'll be back with more questions after the weekend!

Linda

Wow... Linda is still alive and kicking!! Rumours of her being kidnapped must have been false!

Welcome back Linda... I hope 2006 is a good one for you (and of course all other users & DW).

Oh yes, alive and kicking!!!

And feeling stupid... I can't get off the ground on this one.

I've got a text input box which stores the inputted text to a variable, name_customer

Then there's a "Confirm" button, the actions of which should save name_customer to a text file.

I'm using the "Write text to file" for the button (right?). What do I type in the "source" box? I tried typing name_customer but that's not working.

Perhaps I've got the wrong action.....

AMENDED.... Yup... wrong action. Now using write to disk file.... I'll just keep talking to myself as ever....

Chris,

If I've used the "Save to windows temp file" setting in the write to disk file action, then presumably there's a number of places that my text file could be found on different systems.

So I guess that to use your use your "if file exists script" I'd be better off specifying a certain directory.

Is c:/temp good, or would you recommend something else?


Thanks, Linda

Hi Linda

I'm another fan of Opus and use XE 5.14.

If I want to know where the .txt file will be, especially for later copying or deletion, I use the SYSTEM_DOCUMENTS_DIR which will place it in the owner's My Documents directory. Sometimes, I add a folder name as well, in case there will be several files.

I've seen others use SYSTEM_PUBLICATION_DIR since this will store the .txt file where the main .exe itself is installed, likely in Program Files on the C drive.

I suspect our Forum colleagues will have their preferences and rationales and may wish to share these.

Kind Regards,
Stephen

Hi Linda

You can still use "save to windows temp".
Just modify the script like this

if(FileExists(SYSTEM_TEMP_DIR+"\\presentation.txt "))
{
//set variables here
}
else
{
GotoPage("pagename")
}

HTH
Chris

Sorry Chris, I'm more stupid than you thought.... what will I type in to set the variable 'file_name_written' to yes?

(I tried the obvious, but it's not working......)

file_name_written = "yes"