Hi. I very rarely work with Flash. I know with Director that using the
Buddy API xtra, you can easily find which drive letter of the CD.
Two questions though:
1) Does this still work if the Dir Movie is shocked and running through a
browser?
No . Buddy API is not shockwave-safe.
2) Is there a way to accomplish this using Flash?
I'm not sure, but I wouldn't think so.
The goal here is to use Flash (over the Web) as the GUI for a project that
has a ton of QT/AVIs. The media files may be on an accompanying CD. The
Flash movie needs to be able to recognize where the CD is to link to the
correct media file--both on PC & Mac(preferrably without prompting the user
for specifying the drive letter...basically trying to make it "idiot
proof").
There is a fundamental problem here. You cannot link, from shockwave running
in a browser, to assets on a CD. Shockwave is not allowed to have access to
anything on the users HD outside of the system shockwave folder - other than
to volatile assets obtained with preloadNetThing/downLoadNetThing etc.
However, you are talking about a Flash movie, not shockwave, so this may not
apply.
HTH,
-Sean.
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