On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, David Cramer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just spent some more time exploring my old Hansel and Gretel
> problem, i.e., the Case of the Lost Path. Having sprinkled bread
> crumbs liberally, I can now report that the problem I thought I had
> in January with losing graphics in MC stacks accessed from a browser
> does not seem to have anything to do with the way I was
> linking/importing the graphics, but rather with a more fundamental
> phenomenon I hadn't expected, the fact that a stack's sense of its
> current location was getting trashed by Windows.
>
> At least, relative references in general don't work when a MetaCard
> stack is accessed from a browser in Windows 95. I guess this may have
> been reported, but I don't remember it being mentioned.
>
> It seems to work OK on the Mac, and possibly Win NT, but not Windows 95.
>
> I don't mind rewording the scripting references to stacks and
> graphics to make them into absolute references using a global
> variable set when any stack opens, but it seems odd that relative
> references wouldn't be better supported. Is this just some more
> Windows naughtiness or what?
Just out of curiosity, what is the current directory when MetaCard is
started up from the browser on Windows 95? Short of scanning the
entire disk, I can't think of any way to make this reliably work on
*any* platform if you're using relative paths to your media files.
You're never guaranteed to be in a particular directory when a stack
is run from a browser window, so you *always* have to set the
directory property as the very first step, before the stack even
opens.
Regards,
Scott
> Regards,
>
> David
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