Re: Buddy API - open file with...

I myself would go for doing everything within the Director player if possible. That way you have a lot more control.

It shouldn't be too hard to, for instance, generate a list of images and then use the buttons to do a simple getAt operation that will open and visualize the next or previous pic.

I would just use the importFileInto(whateverFile&path). However, you should have one single cast member into which you import the different files, so as to not overload your memory. What I do is have a member called, say "images" in a cast called say "bitmaps" and then I go:

member("images", "bitmaps").importFileInto(whateverFile&path)

However, since it renames the member and I need to keep referring to it, I rename it again with something like this:
member("whateverFile", "bitmaps")="images" --back to the original name


To generate a list of images, I would use something like this, perhaps in a prepareMovie handler (this is from an actual CD in which I worked with over a thousand refeences):

on makeList
gImages = [ ]
myPath = "@/images/" --suposing they're in that folder
repeat with i = 1 to 2000 --some way-too-large number
n = getNthFileNameInFolder(myPath, i)
if n = EMPTY then exit repeat
gImages.append(n)
end repeat

return gImages

end makeList


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william