>I'm having problems playing a AVI in my stack...
>
>The AVI movie only works with the full directory as a path.
>
>Example:
>
>C:\DITBOX\Splashscreen.avi <--This works
>\DITBOX\Splashscreen.avi <--This dosen't
>
>However I need a relative path because this stack will be on a cd with a
>changing drive letter. I've heard some talk of use of the externals
>collection to find the drive letter but so far I have been unsuccessful.
>
Any Ideas?
How about using 'there is a file <filePath>' within a repeat loop on
startup to locate a designated file and the drive letter associated
with it and then construct your filepaths from there (I'm not really
a PC person and not yet familiar with the vagaries of MC or MetaTalk
so don't be surprised if this doesn't work).
put "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" into PotentialDrives
repeat with i = 1 to 26
if there is a file (char i of tPotentialDrives & ":\" & <filePath>) then
return (char i of PotentialDrives) -- use this to build
your filePaths
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
Cheers,
Terry...
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Multimedia Developer
Biomedical Multimedia Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne
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