Printing Authorware text content

Question

I have 10 hours of outdated Authorware 5.2 training and I
have to extract/obtain all the text content in a form whereby the
text can be updated using WORD or similar text editor.
The PRINT function in Authorware 5.2 crashes when I try to
use it with this large module. Also I know from previous experience
with PRINT that the output is a mess - too much information I don't
want.
Does anyone know of a way of reading & extracting text
content from Authorware source code?
The only thing I can fall back to is copy and paste from the
screen, although of course this breaks down when the screen display
is a variable.

Answer 1

There is also ClickCraft's "Fix and Find" .... it has some
fnctions to
assist this sort of text export, edit and reimport.
Here is a brief description of the 2 functions:
-- LANGUAGEIN
-- This script reads the files TextIconDesc.txt,
TextDisplay.txt,
-- TextCalc.txt and TextResponse.txt (located in the same
-- folder as your file) which were created with the
-- LANGUAGEOUT script, then edited manually (eg change
-- of language). This script then reapplies the text to your
file.
-- NOTE: you must *NOT* have save-and-compacted your
-- file in the meantime, nor have changed it in any way.
How to?? : It is described in the help for "Fix and Find"
Clive
"Mike Baker **Adobe Community Expert**"
<[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
>I believe that GetIconContents and the one Steve Howard
mentioned
> GetDispText were both added to Authorware to support
Wizards and KOs and
> they were part of AW 5.2 work. Either GetIconContents or
GetDispText would
> be good to remove only the text so you can put it into
some CSS formatting
> scenario. If you want to retain the format then what you
might be looking
> for is the File / Export Media function from Authorware
7.02. It creates
> RTF
> files from your text.
>
> Mike
> ====================
> Mike Baker
> Adobe Community Expert
> [email protected]
>
> "Erik L." <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:[email protected]...
>> When was the GetIconContents function included with
A'ware? I
>> forget...and my A'ware 5.2 install won't allow a new
file to be created
>> (so I can't open the functions dialog) due to the
amount of RAM I have
>> installed...
>>
>> IF that's a part of 5.2, or if you can upgrade it to
7, you could write
>> a routing to cycle through all the icons and pull
the text property from
>> the resulting property list returned by that
function.
>> Erik
>>
>> Oldtom wrote:
>> > I have 10 hours of outdated Authorware 5.2
training and I have to
>> > extract/obtain all the text content in a form
whereby the text can be
> updated
>> > using WORD or similar text editor.
>> >
>> > The PRINT function in Authorware 5.2 crashes
when I try to use it with
> this
>> > large module. Also I know from previous
experience with PRINT that the
> output
>> > is a mess - too much information I don't want.
>> >
>> > Does anyone know of a way of reading &
extracting text content from
> Authorware
>> > source code?
>> >
>> > The only thing I can fall back to is copy and
paste from the screen,
> although
>> > of course this breaks down when the screen
display is a variable.
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Erik Lord
>>
http://www.capemedia.net
>> Adobe Community Expert - Authorware
>>
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/
>>
>>
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samples, tips, products, faqs, and links!
>> *Search the A'ware newsgroup archives*
>>
http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.authorware
>> *The Blankenship Caveat: Note that direct linking to
http content
>> through any Authorware icon will likely fail if a
proxy server is
> present!*
>
>