on 02.21.02 08:11PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > FWIW, one thing I've done is to compress sounds, import the compressed data > into a custom property in a stack, and later write the sounds to the drive > and decompress them for playback. I assume the same will work fine with > stacks.
Are you saying I can script set the MyCustomProperty of stack "mystack" to stack "stackToCompress" ? I just get "source is not a container". I see that I could write the stack to disk, then read it as a binfile, compress it, then write the compressed data out again. To reconstitute it, I guess I'd have to read the compressed file as a data, decompress it as a data, write it out as data again, then open the file as a stack. I was hoping there would be a way to get MetaCard to treat a stack in memory (not a file) as a lump of data to compress. I have about 1000 small stacks to put on a CD. I guess it won't kill me to have the stack-indexer-and-writer-outer script read-write-read-write each stack to get them onto the CD when I prepare it for distribution, but I don't like having to read-write-read stacks to open them for the end user. So, no one knows a way to coerce MetaCard to treat a stack in memory as text? ever hopeful, tereza + Tereza Snyder + Senior Software Developer + Attainment Company, Inc. + <www.attainmentcompany.com> + 800.327.4269 _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
