Password Protect Part of a Director Movie

Question

Hi,
I've recently purchased INM Impressario and i've added a bunch of PDFS to my director movie.
I'll be handing this movie out to my students, but i would like only certain students to view certain pdf files.
Is there a way i can either password protect the pdf sprite, or would it be easier to go to another frame on button click, whereby the user has to enter a password, and if the password is correct they will be taken to the frame that contains the pdf file.
appreciate any advice. I have never used Lingo before and this is most likely where it will be heading....
many thanks,
Richard.

Answer 1

1) install the xtra
Make sure that you put the budapi.x32 (or whatever the x32 name is) into your Director xtras folder. That would typically be program files\adobe\adobe director 11\configuration\xtras.  Older versions of Director would have similar paths, but with Macromedia instead of Adobe
2) Add the xtra to the movie
Open your file in Director and go to Modify, Movie, Xtras... and Add  budapi to your projector
3) Make a button that will bring up the prompt.
Use any text or bitap that you want.  Give it this script:
on mouseUp me
     userEntered=baPrompt("","Please enter your password","",2,-1,-1)
     if userEntered="CORRECT PASSWORD HERE" then
          go "correct"
     else
          go "incorrect"
     end if
end
*obviously, change CORRECT PASSWORD HERE to the correct password, and change those two go statements to do whatever you want the program to do if the password is entered correctly or incorrectly.