On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 11:10 AM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:
> I had to deal with a similar problem trying to open a PDF from a
> projector
> on a Mac. I still don't know why it didn't work using "@" and ":"
I don't believe relative paths ("@/" work with BAPI or FileIO.
The last char of the moviePath is *always* the path delimiter on your
platform.
You can construct relative paths based on the location of Director
(author) or your projector (runtiome) with the applicationPath; or your
Director movie (moviePath, author/runtime).
In general it is a very bad idea to assume that a file is in a given
location, if it's something the user might have made on his own, or
moved -- so if it's in a documents folder someplace, use FileIO to get
the location to the file first, then use an open or print command.
If it's on a CD from which your app is running, you already know its
relative path. You also know its absolute path because the first item in
either the applicationPath or the moviePath will be the CD's drive
reference.
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