Dan's idea is a good one, but I'd check D: through Z: in Windows (you never know where they might have their CD installed).
Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dan Friedman > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 4:55 PM > To: RunRev Mail List > Subject: Re: path names to CD across platforms > > > 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] > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-> revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
