Viewing the User Manual
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Viewing the User Manual
Hi,
I'm attempting to get access to the BGE user manual from within the program. I'm running Windows 7 and use Foxit Reader for PDFs. I set up a shortcut to Foxit Reader inside the BGE root folder and renamed it PDF Viewer. I then opened BGE and selected User Manual off the Battlegrounds button but nothing happened. I'm using beta version 1.5 of the program.
Any pointers as to what I'm doing wrong? It's driving me nuts!
Regards,
Alan
I'm attempting to get access to the BGE user manual from within the program. I'm running Windows 7 and use Foxit Reader for PDFs. I set up a shortcut to Foxit Reader inside the BGE root folder and renamed it PDF Viewer. I then opened BGE and selected User Manual off the Battlegrounds button but nothing happened. I'm using beta version 1.5 of the program.
Any pointers as to what I'm doing wrong? It's driving me nuts!
Regards,
Alan
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I use Foxit Reader which needs to be fully installed, so I can't move just the executable file into the Battlegrounds folder. I have tried it with another more portable PDF reader and it finds the program as long as you name the executable file PDF Viewer.exe, but it only shows the program start screen - it doesn't automatically load the User Manual in (which I had presumed it would do).
I tried it again with the Foxit Reader shortcut renamed to PDF Viewer.exe rather than just PDF Viewer but it still didn't work.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Alan
I tried it again with the Foxit Reader shortcut renamed to PDF Viewer.exe rather than just PDF Viewer but it still didn't work.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Alan
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I downloaded and installed FoxIt Reader, and had similarly disappointing results. In fact, I couldn't get it to work with Acrobat Reader, either.
I know for a fact that this feature used to work, but perhaps it broke in more recent releases of Windows. Or perhaps it is related to security settings, such as UAC. Need to investigate this further.
I know for a fact that this feature used to work, but perhaps it broke in more recent releases of Windows. Or perhaps it is related to security settings, such as UAC. Need to investigate this further.

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I think I may have found a workaround: Try replacing any spaces in the BGE directory name with underscores. For example "BGE v1_5 Win" should be renamed "BGE_v1_5_Win". And if that alone doesn't work, rename "BGE User Manual.pdf" to "BGE_User_Manual.pdf".

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I think this may be more an issue of Foxit Reader not liking spaces in filenames and filepaths, rather than an issue with BGE/Adobe Director, but it's hard to be certain, since the command is failing silently and not returning any sort of error code.

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