If you mean saving for use with Shockmachine, everything works fine afterward. Shockmachine plays movies 'as if they are still in their web location' & can flag external files to be pulled down with it.
How is this 'saved' movie to be played? If it's still being played in a browser, then it's still being played by the Shockwave player and there are special rules about linked media and of course the relative URLs that used to point to a web location will all break. If you mean offering a copy of a movie for downloading, then yes, all of the above become an issue that the author would need to account for. Certainly one could use full URL locations for the linked items, but that would still require that the web be present & active. hth -Buzz At 10:02 PM +1100 2/20/02, you wrote: >I have concerns about using external files with my Shockwave movies. > >1) If I have a Shockwave game that uses an external shockwave audio >sound file to play music within my game, what happens when that game >is saved from the web page to a local hard-drive? The movie will >then surely generate errors if the external file is not to be found >(assuming the file was referenced as a relative link). Is the only >solution with regard to downloading Shockwave movies with external >files to just embed the files into the movie? Or are external files >detected and downloaded together with the movie? > >2) This problem will also arise when external text files are used to >store game settings/hi-score lists etc. >Does anyone have any answers? > >3) On that note, is there a Lingo command that will detect if >certain external files are present or not? That's one way to avoid >unwanted error messages I guess. > > >Drekinn > >"It's not a bug, it's a random feature." > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go >to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the >list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with >programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
