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>M. Simms asked:
> >One might ask: What is the purpose of the "jump commands" ??
>
>I've received a few questions about this in response to my warning
>about not including certain character sequences in file names. From
>the EasyLangage reference guide, it "jump commands" seem to be a
>rather useless feature (at least to me):
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>---------------------- begin excerpt ----------------------
>Also, you can create links in your Commentary text to the Windows
>Media Player (to play an audio clip) and to definitions in the
>Online User Manual. The links are words in your Commentary that
>appear in a different color and that when clicked, play an audio
>clip or bring up the specified definition in the Online User
>Manual. These words are referred to as jump words.
>
>To create a jump word that plays a music (.WAV) file, enclose the
>complete file name and path of the sound file using the following
>syntax:
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>\wb<path\filename>\we
>
>For example, to link your commentary to the file
>c:\windows\ding.wav, you could write the following statement:
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>Commentary("This links to a file: \wbc:\ding.wav\we");
>
>To create a jump word that brings up the existing definition in the
>Online User Manual, enclose the word using the following syntax:
>
>\pb<word>\pe
>or
>\hb<word>\he
>---------------------- end excerpt ----------------------
>
>Why I'd want to use this feature is beyond me, but apparently
>somebody thought it was cool enough to add.
>
>-Alex
looks like it allows system independent windows paths.. so on win98
or win2k, for example, it would point to c:\windows and c:\winnt,
without you having to check which operating system TS was currently
running on..
of course, -why- you're sticking stuff in the system directory is beyond
me.. :)
Si
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