Need Help, Will Pay... CD Presentation using PDFs

[Daddy_ooooo]

Northcode,
I had everything working fine when I had the pdf file in the same directory as the .exe file. I went one step further and add the "DOSTART" and everything worked great, even on a Win 7 machine. Now the trouble starts, I want to put the pdf files in a folder in the director, but when I add "files\charts.pdf" to the action script it changes it to "files\\harts.pdf". And then I get an error. I tried several different charactors in the script and it won't change them. just when I use the "\". Is this a bug or is there another charactor used ?

[Northcode]

You need to use "files\\charts.pdf" because the \ in quotes is treated as a special character. It marks the start of an escape sequence. You can read all the dirty details in String Literals vs. String Values on my blog.

[Daddy_ooooo]

WOW, it works now. It is amazing how something so little can cause such a road block.

Thanks