Well the original stack will be a standalone,
I have to assume the user could put this anywhere.
If we deliver it a a zipfile, each user will have a different
"style" of what they will do with the executable
after they decompress it... I can't now for sure where it will be.
If we use a professional windows installer or Mac installer
the user is prompted to store executables in their applications
folder. I'm worried then that " put the filename of this stack into tPath "
will give us path to a directory which cannot be written to.
In so far as users can move their applications and run them from anywhere.
I'm guessing now that " put the filename of this stack into tPath "
is a bad strategy and could easily break:
put url gURL into url ("binfile:" & tPath)
So, what should one do? I guess the options are to use "Application
Support"
On the Mac and some such similar special directory on Windows.
If I'm right, then what is it?
What we need is the standard, "for-sure-to-work"
location for saving the file to, such that it can be
successfully written, immediately, by script control
without prompting the user to pick a directory and name the file.
i.e. the default "guaranteed for-sure-exists and is read -- write"
directories
for each platform.
Luis wrote:
Where does the downloaded file appear in on the Windows boxes?
I mean: Is it consistently in the same place? What does your 'tPath'
point to?
May it be relying on the default IE download location?
Cheers,
Luis.
Sivakatirswami wrote:
I have a Podcast App dedicated to a single feed.
to avoid issues with the player playing streaming
remote URL's (which is not working on many windows
machines)I used a download, save and play model,
as we know that playing media from the local hard
drive is quite solid.
But, now a new problem arises, some windows users
are complaining that the podcast appears to be
downloaded but can't be played. My script is simple
and works on the Mac where the downloaded file
ends up inside (unexpectedly) in the package contents
of the standalone on OSX...
Where, btw, Spotlight and Mac Finder "Find"
are unable to find it....causing me to be perplexed because
the download appeared fine, the audio played but I could
not find the file! the path returned by the filename
of this stack goes all the way down into
../Podcast.app/Contents/MacOS/Latest_Podcast.mp3
Fortunately the player in Rev has no problem with this path:
~/Desktop/Podcast.app/Contents/MacOS/Latest_Podcast.mp3
But, things are not happy on Windows:
-------------
# lots of download progress
# stuff goes on here:
# then:
ON saveURL gURL
put the filename of this stack into tPath
set the itemdel to "/"
put "Lastest_Podcast.mp3" into item -1 of tPath
put url gURL into url ("binfile:" & tPath)
unload url gURL
runPodcast tPath
END saveURL
ON RunPodcast pPath
set the cursor to arrow
show player "player1" --with visual effect dissolve
set the filename of player "player1" to pPath
start player "player1"
set the itemdel to ":"
put item 1 of tDuration && "min. " & item 2 of tDuration &&
"sec." into tLength
showstatus ("Title:" & cr &cr & tTitle & cr & cr & tLength),15
show image "Gurudeva" with visual dissolve slowly
END runPodCast
------------------
Again, same old issue: This works fine on our old Del Running XP..
So, my in-house tests indicate "Looking Good on Windows--
OK to Ship...."
Then now I get a report from a Windows user
"It downloads but it will not play... " On this same user's
machine they use another application I deploy which plays sound
files in Revolution, but they save the files manually to some other
directory on their box. So, I'm thinking there is a problem with
writing to a protected directory? Or does can windows be set to block
saving a file that was just downloaded via http?
So, I'm guessing now that saving a downloaded cached URL
to the same directory as the standalone, may not be good practice.
Windows Wizards, please advise!
TIA
Sivakatirswami
www.himalayanacademy.com
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