On Nov 4, 2003, at 3:27 AM, Ian Wood wrote:
This is a nice idea, but you will have trouble on Windows due to the wonders of the random drive letter assigned to the optical drive. I've run into this problem when creating a QuickTime CD portfolio. With LiveStage you could set the sprite to check for the presence/contents of an XML file in the same folder as the QT movies, but if someone realises what the XML file is for they can just copy that over as well.
You don't have to check all the way down to the drive letter. Just put your media a few levels deep on the CD-ROM and check those folders. At least then a person would have to recreate your folder structure if they wanted to pass it around.
Another option would be if we could get some enhanced QuickTime support in Revolution so that you could set Sprite variables from within Rev then you could have Revolution send a password of sorts to the QuickTime movie which would enable Sprite track and start the movie playing. An external could be written to do this.
I suspect the 'delete on suspend' trick is likely to be your best bet.
This works if the machine isn't on a network. Otherwise just leave the program running and access the temporary media file from another computer on the network. No suspend message is sent and the person has the media file.
-- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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