Hi John,
Thanks for your help. The manual setting of the filename property does indeed the trick. However i don't use a placeholder cast, i just renew the link.
I'm scratching my head with issues like this. I only use Director occasionally amongst other graphics and multimedia software and not as my main production tool.
I'm always scared when i take a look at the director quirk list
http://www.updatestage.com/buglist.html
This does'nt really seem to get better i'm afraid. I know Director is a complex tool, but i can't remember any trouble like this in Flash.
Cheers,
Lutz
> 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, >>
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