On 16 Jul 2007, at 08:06, David Glasgow wrote:
I was just putting the finishing touches to a product for a client
when, on impulse, I 'sexed it up' with a little .mov in the
standalone splashscreen. I use playstopped to trigger showing the
splashscreen proper. This works fine on Mac, reliably running
wherever I place the enclosing folder. The same can't be said for
Windows. With QT installed, some boxes run it fine, and some
don't. It sometimes behaves as if the filename of the movie isn't
valid even though it is always contained within the same folder,
and double clicking the movie launches QT as expected. I don't
have time to work out why this is the case, so I decided to just
skip the movie if it isn't going to run, and show the buttons and
information fields which form the business end of the
splashscreen. This has proved more difficult than I expected. I
use Studio, so I can't debug in detail on Windows.
Hi David,
do you use a relative filename for the movie? If so, try getting the
filename and turning it into an absolute one. I had a problem where
quicktime movies with relative filenames would work on OSX and Mac
OS9, but not on Windows - I managed to figure out the path was
invalid (although it was the same relative path on both boxes).
Check out bug 1161 in the quality control centre:
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=1161
(This all goes to confirm rule 437 of software development: "Never
sex up a splashscreen on impulse, especially if you have just
promised to deliver the product within the week")
Sometimes the simplest things require the most code!
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