Hi Simon,
Here's where to find a downloader I created some time ago. It's similar to what
you're talking about:
http://members.home.com/phildavis/mc/downloader.mc (16K)
http://members.home.com/phildavis/mc/downloader.sit (3K)
Enjoy!
Phil
Simon Lord wrote:
>
> Can MetaCard play streaming (ie the fast start kind) movies?
>
> Here's what I would like to try out in the next few weeks:
>
> 1- Load all my images, text, movies and audio to my raq server
> 2- Run a stack that retrieves all the images etc from the server
>
> Has anyone done this? This might help me convince my client not to pay
> attention to plugins. It lends itself very well to updates this way since
> the data is called up from the server. I potentially could also create
> modular courseware which is seen by the "browser" stack and allow the user
> to run these extra modules simply by selecting it from a list.
>
> Anyone else interested in this type of functionality? Are people doing this
> with MC?
>
> I asked Scott earlier if it would be possible to design a stack locally on
> my disk, and lets say I stored all my media in a directory called *data*,
> then when the project was done I could get the stack to find my *data*
> directory at "http://www.stackraq.com/data" - thus extending the set
> directory I guess. I'm waiting for the answer but I'm pretty sure I can do
> most of it, I just want to avoid all the extra work to get it *to* work by
> allowing me to simply point to a location and say "get the data from there"
> type of thing.
>
> Am I nuts or can this be done? I am only now getting around to really
> exploring MC and the web.
>
> --
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
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