Re: QT movie address in player(2)

[Ronald D. Zellner]

Message: 1
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:06:31 -0500
Subject: Re: QT movie address in player
From: Ken Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:39:47 -0600
> From: Ronald Zellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: QT movie address in player
>
> When I play a QT movie in  Revolution 1.1.1  by embedding it in a
> player, the pathway is absolute and will be incorrect if I move the
> files to another computer. This is especially problematic if it is
> converted to a standalone file which is delivered on a CD since the
> file can't be edited.
> Is there a way to have a stack start up and immediately display the
> movie that was originally embedded there.
> Ron
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Hi Ron,
NOTE: If your stack is already a standalone, you'll have to rebuild it to
implement these. There are two basic ways:
1) If you want to keep the movie in an offstack file (saves stack memory)
like you already have it:
 a) Put the stack file and the movie file in the same folder, which
 normally becomes the defaultFolder at startup of the stack.
Another approach was to add this script to the card.  It seems to 
take care of the problem. Does this make sense?

on opencard
  put the filename of this stack into P
--isolate & remove the file name from the path
  repeat with X = the number of characters in P down to 1
    if character X of P = "/" then
      put " " into character X of P
      exit repeat
    end if
  end repeat
  Delete the last word of P
--substitute the movie name and set the player filename
  set the filename of Player "Player1" to P & "/MainMovie.mov"
end opencard
Ron

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