I've had a similiar error, but when linking files from a projector; not
shockwave.
This approach seems to work for me:
1. Prior to publishing, link each sub movie's cast to a placeholder cast.
(I call it placeholder.cct because I'm creative.) This placeholder should
sit in the same folder as the movie.
2. On prepareMovie, manually link to the proper cast by providing the
full-qualified-I'm-certain-it's-there path:
castLib("shared").filename = 'root\shared.cct'
castLib("shared_project_a").filename =
'root\project_a\shared_project_a.cct'
You'll need to make sure you don't attempt to use any of the assets in those
casts until they are linked. Since it happens on PrepareMovie, that should
not be too difficult.
John Mathis
www.inplicity.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lutz Paelike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:40 PM
Subject: <lingo-l> Reference Errors in Director and Shockwave
> I have some weird problems with shockwave on the internet.
> Director constantly mixes up references to casts and/or movies.
>
> example:
>
> I have a file main.dcr in the root folder which is the starting movie.
> Also there are several subdirectories in which subprojects live, like
> project_a.dcr and all related files are located in a folder called
"project_a"
> like the following structure.
>
> _
> |
> main.dcr
> |
> shared.cct
> |
> ---project_a
> | |
> | project_a_main.dcr
> | |
> | shared_project_a.cct
> | |
> ...
> |
> |---project_b
>
>
> shared.cct does not only contain data relevant for the main level but also
for sublevels of the structure (and is linked
> to project_a_main.dcr for this purpose)
>
> When I now want to go from main.dcr to project_a_main.dcr i get sometimes
weird linkage/reference errors like
> "http://www.mysite.com/project_a/sharec.cct is not a director file"
> which is obviously wrong because director is just looking at wrong
location.
> However in Director itself it works and doesn't complain.
> So this is really nasty and hard to debug.
>
> I re-exported everyhing thousands of times now and what's even stranger
the error only happens from time to time and not
> alwaya.
>
> However in Director itself also some strange behaviour is happening.
> Sometimes Director places shared.cct not in the root of the project
folder, like
> "d:\dev" but above that in "d:" or even in a totally different place like
the user home directory, which is also on a
> different drive (c:)
>
> The platform is windows, Director is Director MX 2004 with the recent
update.
>
> Has anybody seen something like this?
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Lutz
>
>
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