Saving files within a movie

Hi,
I am creating a movie that contains a gallery of thumbnail
images. Hi-res versions of the images are in a folder on the CD. My
client wants to be able to click on a given image & be able to
save the hi-res version to a location on the harddrive. Is this
possible? If so, how would I go about it? Is there a way (through
lingo) to have the movie open a Windows explorer-type window
accessing the images folder so the client could do a 'save as'?
Thanks!

There are a few xtras that can handle this sort of thing.
FileIO is
built in and free, but a tad difficult to use. My absolute
recommendation is to use BuddyAPI which is freeto use up to 2
functions,
though you may need more depending upon what you want to do.
You can
download it here:
www.mods.com.au/budapi
There is a function called baGetFileName which will bring up
the
standard Windows dialog to get a filename. There are also
commands to
copy or move files.
If your images are Director members, as opposed to external
files on the
computer, then you can easily make them into an external
image with
the free Sharp Image Export xtra:
http://www.sharp-software.com/products/index.htm#sharpexport

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