the lingo part should just be:
member("whatever").filename=@movies&getpathdelimiter()&"whatever.mov"
where getpathdelimiter() is just a script that figures out the machine
type and returns ":" or "/"
thanks again.
paul
phastings wrote:
>
> i'm having a big problem that resembles the same problem that has been
> being discussed a little about the quicktime paths. i am taking a
> project that had already been completed and reburning it. everything
> works fine on the mac side but the pc side is looking for the casts,
> movie files, and audio files(all of which are in a directory one above
> the .dir) using the ":" intead of a slash. now that i think about it,
> it's also looking in the wrong directory not from the cd root. i
> gesss that means that my mac side probablly wouldn't work either if
> all the files were not already still on the mac hard drive.
>
> here's another interesting twist. i moved all of the pc side files
> over to a pc. i opened up the .dir files and saved it again and then
> burned a cd and it seems to work fine on all machines.
>
> in the past i've used the
> member("whatever").filename=@movies&getpathdelimiter()&"
> <mailto:).filename=@movies&getpathdelimiter()&>whatever.mov"
>
> to get it to work for quicktime movies. can i do this for the casts
> too? do i need to do this or is there an easier way? does director
> now know to look for ":" or "/" between directories relative to what
> machince type it's running on? help?
>
> thanks.
>
> paul
>
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