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Using Lingo with Internet security restrictions

Because of security issues for movies that play back in browsers, the following Lingo features are unsupported for Shockwave movies playing in a browser. Many of these restrictions are imposed by the Internet environment. For details about security concerns when playing a movie on the Internet, see Director and Internet Security on the Director Support Center Web site.

In general, the following Lingo features are unsupported because of Internet security concerns:

Setting colorDepth for the user's monitor

Saving a movie by using the saveMovie command

Printing by using the printFrom command

Opening an application by using the open command

Stopping an application or the user's computer by using the quit, restart, or shutDown command

Opening a local file that isn't in the dswmedia folder or a subfolder of the dswmedia folder

Pasting content from the Clipboard by using the pasteClipBoardInto command

Searching for files on a user's system with getNthFileNameInFolder(), searchCurrentFolder, or searchPath