Simon, you said it all so well.
Is there any part of the system you built for CAE that I could refer to in
my article?
> All we are waiting for now is for Scott and his crew
> to implement a new *set directory* command which would allow all MC
> users to point to "http://www/amigo-3.com/discreet/images/" rather
> than to "data/images/story.gif" (the URL actually being the one you
> want, not mine:^).
Would this get you through the day (tucking it into a backscript
somewhere)?:
on SetiDir pPath
global gInternetDirectory
put pPath into gInternetDirectory
end SetiDir
function iDir
global gInternetDirectory
return gInternetDirectory
end iDir
You could call it like this:
SetiDir "http://www.fourthworld.com/images/"
get URL iDir()&"myimage.gif"
It should also work for local dirs as well, so with only a minor
inconvenience in syntax you would have the flexibility you're after, yes?.
It just occured to me that you could save a few chars each time you use it
by changing the iDir function:
function iDir pPath
global gInternetDirectory
return gInternetDirectory & pPath
end iDir
The simpler calling syntax would be:
get URL iDir("myImage.gif")
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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