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P

pageHeight of member
palette of member
paletteMapping
paletteRef
param
paramCount
pass
pasteClipBoardInto
pathName
pattern
pause
pauseState
percentPlayed of member
percentStreamed of member
perFrameHook
pi
picture of member
pictureP
platform
play
play done
play member
playFile
point
power
printFrom
preLoad
preLoad of member
preLoadBuffer member
preLoadEventAbort
preLoadMember
preLoadMode of CastLib
preLoadMovie
preloadNetThing
preLoadRAM
preLoadTime of member
prepareFramepause member
prepareMoviepausedAtStart of member
previous
productName, the (undocumented in Director 6, as well as Director 5)
productVersion, the (undocumented in Director 6, as well as Director 5)
property
proxyServer
puppet of sprite
puppetPalette
puppetSound
puppetSprite
puppetTempo
puppetTransition
purgePriority of member
put
put...after
put...before
put...into
putImageIntoCastMember

pathname -

the
pathname

property returns the current directory. of the current DIR or DXR file, not necessarily the same directory as the projector. This is useful for determining where your presentation is running, or for generating relative paths.

Note that "the pathname" returns a path with a trailing backslash (\) under Windows, or a trailing colon (:) on the Mac. Use the "&" operator to concatenate a file name and the path.

Refer to the TechNote, "File and Path Specifications".

To point to a file in the current folder, use:

	the pathname & myFile

You can determine the drive letter by setting the itemDelimiter to a backslash (\) under Windows, or a colon (:) on the Mac, and then using the item...of function, such as:

	set oldDelimiter = the itemDelimiter
	set the itemDelimiter = ":"
	set macDriveName = item 1 of the pathName
	set the itemDelimiter = oldDelimiter

platform -

the
platform

function does not return the platform on which the projector is running, it returns the Projector type. It returns the following values (Note that there is no space in the string following the comma):

"Macintosh,68k" for Standard Mac Projectors running on Standard Macs (or PowerMacs)
"Macintosh,68k" for Fat Binary Projectors running on Standard Macs
"Macintosh,PowerPC" for Fat Binary or PowerMac-only Projectors running on PowerMacs
"Windows,16" for 16-bit Projectors or the 16-bit Director authoring environment under Windows 3.1 or under Windows 95
"Windows,32" for 32-bit projectors or the 32-bit Director authoring environment under Windows 95 or NT.

Warning: the platform returns "Windows,16" when running a 16-bit projector under Windows 95, not "Windows,32" as you might expect. Refer to the TechNote, "Determining the Playback Platform at Run-Time" and use zWinVer to determine the Windows OS version accurately. See also

the
machineType