Christopher,
As far as I know there is no lingo command to publish a movie to
Shockwave and Director does not appear to be AppleScriptable. However,
you could automatically store the date and time in a field or text
member using the stopMovie handler. That would allow you to view a date
& time reasonably close to the publish date & time assuming that you
would publish just after testing your last fix. You might use something like:
on stopMovie
member("timeStamp").text = the date && the time
end
-Jeremy Aker
"Watson, Christopher" wrote:
>
> Here's an interesting one.
>
> We've got several development and R&D servers onto which I deploy the DCR I
> produce. The manual deployments happen relatively irregularly over the
> course of a week or so, and then the DCR is intergrated into a site build
> that is installed onto other servers at other times. Depending on the time
> of day, one set of servers may have one version of the DCR, and another set
> may have another version. Eventually, a specific version is tagged as a
> build candidate, and it gets packaged up in our build process and installed
> on the QA boxes for testing.
>
> The DCR can be run in a "QA Mode" that displays several bits of information
> in the stage area for testing purposes only. One bit of info, which is very
> important to the testers, is the "Submission Level". That's simply a letter
> (A, B, C...and so on), which is manually incremented in my "startMovie"
> handler each time a I publish a DCR destined for the build and a submission
> into QA. We track our defects (bugs) using the Submission Level as the key
> for regressions, etc.
>
> But at the development and R&D boxes, there may be several versions of the
> DCR deployed during any given day, and it becomes important for the content
> reviewers and production people to know EXACTLY what version of the DCR
> they're looking at. It becomes even more important to ME when the content
> and curriculum people approach me wondering if the version they're looking
> at has that one little fix I implemented earlier in the day...or not. I
> don't have any way of telling them if it does, because all we can see as a
> result of running it in "QA Mode" is a Submission Level letter. For these
> particular servers, that's just not enough info.
>
> I need more granularity in my versioning display. But I do not want to have
> to increment or edit a string in Lingo every single time I publish the DCR
> (which is dozens of times per day). I need some sort of automated way to get
> my DCR the information it needs to display a "version" tied to the specific
> instance of publishing the DCR. How can I do that???
>
> I really wish there was some message sent to movie scripts whenever a DCR
> was about to be published, so that I could alter via Lingo the movie script
> that contains my version string. I could insert the current date and time,
> and have that available via a global variable at runtime. That way, I could
> also display the "publish date and time" of the DCR when it was run in "QA
> Mode".
>
> Anybody got any tricks up their sleeves for doing this sor of thing? Any
> alternative ways of looking at this problem?
>
> Christopher Watson
> Sr. Software Engingeer
> Director/Shockwave Development
> Lightspan, Inc.
> Tel: 858.824.8457
> Fax: 858.824.8008
>
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