Re: path names to CD across platforms

[Byron Turner]

Thanks, according to our programmer, the platform returns MacOS in both 
classic and OSX so this fails.  He says he has a solution which we'll 
test today.  If it indeed does work, I'll ask him to post his method.

Thanks for everyone's help.

Byron

On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 02:54  PM, Dan Friedman wrote:

Byron,

Try this...  (This assumes that you pass a movie path without the drive
name/letter, and the CD (for the Mac) is named "myCDROM")...
 put getMoviePath("datafiles/movies/movie001.mov") into mPath

 function getMoviePath fileName
   if the platform = "MacOS" then
     if there is a file ("myCDROM/" & fileName) then
       return ("myCDROM/" & fileName)
     end if
   else
     if there is a file ("D:/" & fileName) then
       return ("D:/" & fileName)
     else if there is a file ("E:/" & fileName) then
       --just incase they mapped the CD drive to "E"
       return ("E:/" & fileName)
     end if
   end if
   -- you might put some kind of warning or error
   -- routine here.  Probably don't want to continue
   -- if the movie was not found
   return false
 end getMoviePath
There's probably a better way to do this, but it should work (I didn't 
test
it!).  Hope it helps,

Dan


Message: 10
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:36:35 -0700
Subject: path names to CD across platforms
From: Byron Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Forgive me if this gets posted twice, the first was held up and this 
is
urgent.  How would I compensate for the differences in file path names
when deploying to OS 9, OS X and Windows?  For example a movie resides
on a CD . . how do we have one app that can be built for multiple
platforms that can find the file regardless?

Thanks,

Byron
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