How do I set it so I can have a button on the screen that, when clicked, opens an associated JPG in a folder on my harddrive? Just Open File script makes me have to select a file, but I put the file name into a field in the data. I am new at this.

I don't have it, but from what I understand FM6 can do this.

The Troi File plugin also does and gives you alot of useful tools.

Ken

If you have a Mac, you can do it with AppleScript. Since you can run an AppleScripts from a script, you simply pass the AppleScript a value (the path) then run the AppleScript.

Thats the only non plugin way I can think of.

I do this all the time!

All you have to do is use the GetURL script step and point it to the location of the picture on your hard drive.

Good luck!

I believe you could do this with either the Open URL script step or the Send Message (for Windows) or Send Apple Event (for Mac) script step. Check the help screens for these commands for more information. For the URL, you'd need to preface the full file name with "file://". For the Send Message step, you may need to place quotes around a file name that contains spaces.

One thing I don't think you can do is to open another FileMaker file whose name is contained in a field.

The Open URL step requires that certain system components be installed. Again, check FM help.

Regards...