At 11:58 AM +0000 14/2/2000, Peter Reid wrote:
>I'm trying to load various images that make up the screen design of
>my stack directly from disk files rather than have them embedded.
>However, if I use something like the following:
>
> set the fileName of image "MainTitle" to "/MacHD/Images/title.gif"
>
>I just get blank filled rectangles instead of the images themselves.
>If I select the same file from within the MetaCard development
>environment, it displays correctly. I've even looked at the source
>code in this part of the development environment and can't see where
>it's doing anything different to me, but my code simply doesn't work?!
Hi Peter
Try the file path without the leading forward slash:
set the fileName of image "MainTitle" to "MacHD/Images/title.gif"
Cheers
Dave Cragg
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