Bill,We needed to use relative paths for audio and video clips, plus graphics
in our CBT engine some time ago, and came upon the same problems as you.
Particularly as sometimes the projects were distributed via CD or DVD and we
had no control over what drive letter/name was being used. I'm not sure if our
solution will help you but I'm totally gob smacked to be able to offer
something to this group instead of continuing to be a leach on the Rev society
!!We overcame it by calling an initPaths handler (see below) called from an
openStack handler. We then wrote our own video and audio handlers that refer
to those globals. The graphics are handled by making sure we refer to just the
file name (not the path) in the Name property of the Image control, which is a
bit weird as sometimes it is displayed in the Property Inspector including the
current path and file name.You'll note that we had to deal with the paths
differently for MacOS vs Windoze. If you'd like the audio and video handlers
(which include the ability to stop the media via an ESC key press), I'd be
happy to upload them. They're very small. I seem to remember that Rev was
saying that relative paths were a new feature, but I haven't looked into it
recently as what we did solved our problem.HTH, Bob...on InitPaths -- get and
save the project path if the platform = "MacOS" then -- this is required for
Mac platforms only due to differences in file path reporting set the
itemDelimiter to "/" put the effective fileName of this stack into
gProjectPath delete the last item of gProjectPath else set the
itemDelimiter to "/" put item 1 to -2 of the effective filename of this
stack into gProjectPath end if -- setup the audio folder path put
gProjectPath & "/Audio" into gAudioPath -- set up the video folder path put
gProjectPath & "/Video" into gVideoPath -- set up the graphics path for
image controls set the defaultFolder to gProjectPath & "/Graphics/" end
InitPaths~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 17:10:29
-0700From: Bill Vlahos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Relative folder pathsTo: How
to use Revolution <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com>Message-ID:<[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1I can't seem to refer to
folders via relative paths.Lets say I have a folder containing a standalone,
Data folder, and Preference folder all at the same level. The defaultFolder
would be the folder at the level of the standalone.If I change the
defaultFolder to "DataFileFolder" I can then just "put the files into
vFilesList" to get a listing of the files. However, this resets the
defaultFolder value so I can't get to things in the Preference folder.How would
I get a listing of files in the defaultFolder/DataFileFolder?Thanks,Bill
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