Controlling PDFs in Player Object on Mac

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sat Oct 14 10:45:07 CDT 2006


On 10/14/06 9:56 AM, "David Epstein" <dfepstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> In case anyone else wonders about this question, I have found a
> solution by trial and error.  This may not be the best way (and the
> "play" command, according to the MC help, should be replaced in future
> development by the "start" command, although there is no mention of
> "start step"), but it seems to work:
> 
> on pdfToPage n -- show page n of the pdf in player 1
>   put round(n) into n -- n as passed by scrollBarDrag doesn't seem to
>   -- always be an integer
>   put (n-1)*75 into t
>   set the playSelection of player 1 to true
>   set the startTime of player 1 to t
>   set the endTime of player 1 to t+1
>   play step player 1
> end pdfToPage

That's great, David! Cool tip...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com



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