Placing Markers in a Text Box

I am making an interactive report/presentation that I would
like to have the page numbers automatically inserted. I usually
name my markers by the chapters that they are in (ie cooking page 1
would be C1). Being lazy by nature I would rather not manually
number all of my pages and I do not want to create 50 cast members
just for numbering. Inserting Marker Lables seems like it would be
a good idea. But if anyone has any suggestions on how to do the
page numbering I am open to suggestions. By the way I am using
Director 8.

create a text member called pagenumber to appear on the
stage, then use this code
member("pagenumber").line[1] = the framelabel

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Program: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe
R6025
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Error signature
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At times, we need to add information to PDF files (i.e missing dates, etc). We have always used the Text Box Tool to do this with no border, and with no fill color as this is the EASIEST and FASTEST way to add information to PDF files in a precise manner. We want the fill color to be transparent so that we can fit text in between and exactly on lines easier, and so that there is not a solid background box behind the text. We want no border because a border around text that needs to go on a line looks stupid. Up until version 9.2 this procedure worked fine. Now, the program will crash. Perhaps this even adds another security vulnerability if the crash could be exploited. We want to maintain security by patching Adobe to address the JavaScript vulnerability that was addressed in version 9.2.0, however, we are not able to update our users as the new version breaks the fundamental purpose that we use Adobe Acrobat for. We are stuck with the vulnerable version 9.1.3 until this problem is addressed. Disabling JavaScript is not an option either, as we use a Java plug-in on a daily basis.
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The question still is not answered.
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Addind text in a new line within a text box

Hi everyone,
I have a classic text box component that i am using inside
director. I want to show some text inside this text box in such a
way that it should come in. For example I am adding "Item 1" ,
"item 2", " item 3" then every item should be placed in new line.
I tried using new line symbol ( \ ) it but it didn't worked.
set member("textbox").text = "Item 1 " & \ & " item
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Please suggest how to do this thing.
Thanks
Atul Saxena

Hi Atul,
Try using 'RETURN'
set member("textbox").text = "Item 1 " & RETURN & "
item 2" & RETURN &
"Item 3" --------->
Tim
"Atul Saxena" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi everyone,
> I have a classic text box component that i am using
inside director. I
> want to
> show some text inside this text box in such a way that
it should come in.
> For
> example I am adding "Item 1" , "item 2", " item 3" then
every item should
> be
> placed in new line.
>
> I tried using new line symbol ( \ ) it but it didn't
worked.
> set member("textbox").text = "Item 1 " & \ & "
item 2" & "Item
> 3" --------->
> this gave me error
>
> Please suggest how to do this thing.
>
> Thanks
> Atul Saxena
>

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