On 5/17/00 5:42 AM, Kevin Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 1. Why does the MC graphics importer use full paths, since we know in
>> advance those will not work in a shipping app except in the unlikely
>> occurrence that the drive letter, volume name, and all elements of the path
>> are exactly the same? Have I missed something here?
>>
>> 2. Wen using a relative path, it seems dependend on the current directory,
>> rather than the location of the stackfile the media is referenced in. Or is
>> the path always fixed relative to the MC app/standalone?
>
> You need to set the directory property of the stack to on preOpenStack to
> match its fileName.
How do we ensure that the directory isn't changed by some other routine
between cards? For example, suppose we set the directory appropriately, and
while going from card to card we run some utility from some other vendor
which sets the directory property -- will future cards that open no have the
graphics shown?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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