As someone who can speak with great authority on how to do all kinds
of MetaCard stuff wrong (!) I can suggest a couple things. But before
I do that, I can vouch for the fact that the only thing wrong with
your situation is likely the current path, either because it's
misspelled or some other probably really simple mistake.
1) Are these disk image files located in a subfolder of your stack?
This would probably be the most desirable setup. Then you could "set
the directory" (a global MetaCard variable) to whatever the stack's
path is.
2) This brings up the point of spelling. Could it be that there is a
hard space or invisible character of some sort in the names of part
of your path? If so, and the stack is in a parental relationship
(after the DNA testing) to the graphics, something like the following
statement in the stack script would set the path so you could then
refer to the graphics using relative syntax. Then it would be totally
transportable, it wouldn't matter how you had spelled the names of
your drive, folders, etc., and it would adjust itself automatically
on the fly.
global vgPath
on preOpenStack
put the effective fileName of this stack into vgPath
set the itemDel to "/"
delete the last item of vgPath
set the directory to vgPath
end preOpenStack
Then if your stack's fileName was
"/MacHD/Hoosis/Watsis/MyStack/MyStack.mc" and a typical graphic was
"/MacHD/Hoosis/Watsis/MyStack/Images/title.gif" you could refer to it
within the stack thusly:
set the fileName of image "MainTitle" to "Images/title.gif"
...and you could also move the MyStack folder anywhere on any machine
and it would still work.
Regards,
David
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David Cramer, Process Innovation Evangelist 87-1313 Border Street
PBSC Computer Training Centres (an IBM company) Winnipeg MB R3H 0X4
Corporate Office Research & Development Canada
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