At 00:03 +0800 04/17/2002, noelle cheng wrote:
>Thank you! Your explanation is very clear. I have managed to do it
>properly and it works.
Good!
>I notice that the suggestions / solutions you provide do work.
Stick around. Eventually I will get one wrong, at which point Buzz,
Colin and Kerry will gleefully leap upon me in a massive e-mail dog
pile.
>By the way, how did you know of this QT linking?
I learned about it in the same way you did, essentially: By trying
it, getting it wrong and having to figure out what to do next.
Experience is a very effective -- if sometimes painful -- teacher.
>>>set the searchCurrentFolder = False
>>
>>How do you know it is not working? I have never actually used that
>>setting, by the way.
>
>My computer hung when I used this command. Or maybe it was because I
>did not use it correctly.
Of course it could simply have been having difficulty with the autorun.
>>>Note: The Lingo "the searchPath" should be used in a movie which
>>>doesn't itself contain linked media. This is because the
>>>searchPath must be set before linking.
>Actually, there is something I do not quite understand.
>'A movie which doesn't itself contain linked media.' does this
>mean no external cast? So the 'searchPath' inherently has
>limitations?
It means no external media, such as QuickTime movies or any image or
sound you import via *linking* rather than direct import.
For example when you import a JPEG you may choose to simply *link to*
the JPEG rather than import it into your Cast. Linking will interfere
with searchPath.
This would hold true (I suspect) for linked scripts as well, and it
might hold true for external Cast (.cst) files, though I am not sure.
I have not had occasion to use the searchPath, as I try to retain as
much control as possible over what external files are used, and where
they are placed.
>By the way, what is XML parser? What is the use of it in lingo? It
>modifies lists?
It can read and modify XML-formatted data, if my understanding of it
is not faulty. I have not had occasion to really explore the XML
parser (I have never had to parse XML data), but I gather it is quite
useful.
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