Buddy API is not shockwave safe for major security reasons. You also can not access the local drives or CD drives from Shockwave.
-Chuck -------------------------- Chuck Neal CEO, MediaMacros, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediamacros.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Neilsen Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:40 AM To: mailto: Subject: <lingo-l> Shockwave finding movies on CD-ROM I can use BuddyAPI (BAFindDrive) in a projector to determine if the correct CD-ROM is in the drive; to then either open a specified movie from the CD-ROM, or alternatively, alert the user that the (correct) CD-ROM is not available. Can I do something similar with Shockwave? I would like to embed a little Shockwave file (looking like a "disk" icon) into a web-page as a link to external movies to be stored on a CD-ROM (delivered to students to use in conjunction with the web-site). My idea is to make it so when a user clicks on this icon, it determines the letter assigned to their CD-ROM drive, finds and opens a movie on that drive, or alternatively reports that the correct CD-ROM is not available if this is the case. Essentially, I want to make Shockwave files that work something like Quicktime Reference Movies, but for Director files. The problem seems to be that I can set the bupapi xtra to be included in the projector, but not to be downloaded if required. So it seems that using bubapi is not the answer, and I need to try and find another way of doing this. Cheers Alan Neilsen [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
