Newbie needs help!

[Alberto]

Hi!
I am to do my first work with AMS and I am with problems. I want that the menu makes a thing in particular and I don't get. I want that the users will have access to a file in format .PDF located in a folder of the CD. If Acrobat Reader are installed in the system of the users the file should open. If Acrobat Reader are not installed in the system of the users the menu it should show a message wondering the users wants to install it or not. If the users doesn't want to install Acrobat, the menu should abort the action. If the users wants to install the program the menu will install him and the file should open. I know that I have to work with variables, but I have not experience in this matter. Will it be that anybody can help me explaining to me the what I should do or indicating me where I can find appropriate information? Or the one what I intend to do an unlikely work it is for a newbie?

Regards!

[Yuri]

Re: Newbie needs help!

Banana nao tem carozo mais filamento grosso....

[Alberto]

Re: Newbie needs help!

Thanks for your help, Youri

[AndrewClark]

Re: Newbie needs help!

Alberto,
I can email you some screen shots of the page properties of a menu which shows what you want. You will need to look at these in conjuction with the AMS help system.
If you want to learn AMS systematically, I can strongly recommend the AMS Insight tutorial. It is a very effective way of learning AMS, and covers some advanced concepts as well as the basics.
Regards
Andrew

[Alberto]

Re: Newbie needs help!

Hi Andrew!
Thank you for your replay and for your help. I received your mail and I did as you suggested and I tested my menu in Windows 98 and 2000. In Windows 98 everything ran well, but in the 2000 it happens a strange fact: during the preview if "Wait for Return" in "Execute Program" it be marked, the menu lockup when the installation of Acrobat is at 98% and anything else doesn't happen. I open the task manager, Shut Down the menu and then Acrobat finishes the installation. But as I am out of the menu, my document .pdf obviously doesn't open. If I don't mark "Wait for Return" Acrobat install without problems but, obviously, the window of the document .pdf appears with the message "There is no application associated with the given file name extension.".
Is this normal to happen?
Thank you again for your help. I understand the function of the variables now.
Regards.

Alberto

[Lorne]

Re: Newbie needs help!

I'm still trying to figure out what any of this has to do with bananas. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[Alberto]

Re: Newbie needs help!

Hi!
Nothing of this has to do with bananas. Yuri just meant with some humor that didn't know or he didn't want to help me.

Alberto

[Lorne]

Re: Newbie needs help!

Heh, I didn't think so. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

I'm curious about what he said, though.

Banana nao tem carozo mais filamento grosso....

Banana ...
nao ... don't?
tem ... the? his?
carozo ... ???
mais ... but?
filamento ... thread
grosso ... big/bigger

It sounds to me like "<>...but I can make the thread bigger." The <> part is a mystery to me. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[Alberto]

Re: Newbie needs help!

Hi Lorne!
I will translate you the expression " Banana não tem caroço mas filamento grosso..."
It is a Brazilian expression with pejorative sense that is usually used to call idiot the other person.
In English: " Banana doesn't have pit but thick filament...."
I am Portuguese and I know the expression.
Regards.

Alberto

[Lorne]

Re: Newbie needs help!

Heh, I never would have guessed that. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

I think you've started a new saying around the offices here...

[Yuri]

Re: Newbie needs help! (correct sentence)

First of all I must to make something clear about that expression: it has not any pejorative sense at all. (At least brazilians say that!! Im not sure).

To be more precise I would say it's an erotic expresion related to sexual stuff, u know.

I wrote it in my reply because it was the only one thing, I've found, linked to alberto.

Besides, the complete and correct sentence is the following:

"Banana nao tem caroco mais tem filamento grosso que dificulta a mastigacao"

Feel free to use it at work, at home, parties, weddings, even it can be said to a girl (not to your mum or girlfriend parents).

Yuri

[Mark]

Re: Newbie needs help! (correct sentence)

Hi,

I just want to get this straight, what is the exact English translation of this phrase? Is it something like:

"A Banana does not have a pit, but it does have a this skin which makes it difficult to eat"?

If that is the translation, what does it mean?


mark.

[Alberto]

Re: Newbie needs help! (correct sentence)

Hi Yuri and Mark!
Still concerning an it already celebrates expression. The right translation is that that I did. With relationship to its meaning, Yuri is also right in that that says, but just partly. In fact, the expression can be it uses with a sexual connotation, as in the sense that I expressed. It depends on the context in that she is uttered. (I confirmed this with some brazilians friends ). And as the context it is this place, a site of change of knowledge and not of ****o information, I interpreted I eat they already know. But I didn't feel offended not even displeased, because I know the expression and its contexts. I interpreted that Yuri was to tell me any thing like: " you still have a lot to learn in AMS ". What is true. That I didn't feel offended or at least displeased. On the contrary I found funny, because I didn't count to see expressions writings here in Portuguese language. It was unexpected.
And I know that I am not idiot, I am not just a professional of the computers. I am professional diver and teaching in a school. But as I enjoy a lot of computers, I am to try to distribute CD's, gratuitously and in a friendly way, to my students with information on safety in the dive that, if printed, it would spend a lot of paper and it would occupy a lot of space. That that took me to ask help here was. Perhaps have not been good idea. As man of the sea, I knows what can happen when a fish asks help to a group of sharks. : -)

Regards!

Alberto

[RobertB]

Re: Newbie needs help! (correct sentence)

An amazing thread........