RE:odd directory behaviour in DreamCard

[Dr . John R . Vokey]

I wrote previously on this issue, and received Richard Gaskin's 
suggestions, below.  Neither of the cases he describes apply.  It is 
just a simple stack.  Indeed, I copied the the few lines of code to a 
new stack, and again got the same result in the player; it is as if the 
variable thePath is empty, but only in DreamCard Player, both Metacard 
and RR (latest engine versions) work correctly! It happens on both the 
Mac OS X and Windows XP versions of Dreamcard.  I'm baffled.  Any 
ideas?  I'd bugzilla this problem, but I don't have a clue how one does 
so.

Dr.John R.Vokey wrote:
> The following code works (and has always worked) in Metacard (MC), 
and
> Revolution (RR), both as a stack and as a standalone (and even over
> OSs), but not in DreamCard:
>
> In the card script of the first card:
>
> global thePath
>
> on openCard
>   --
>   --  Get/Set Paths
>   --
>   put the filename of this stack into thePath
>   set the itemdelimiter to "/"
>   delete the last item of thePath
>   -- (other irrelevant stuff deleted)
>   set the filename of image "Test" to thePath&"/test.jpg"
>   -- (other irrelevant stuff deleted)
> end openCard
>
> In MC and RR, the path to the image is correctly specified and the 
image
> appears, but not in DreamCard.  Tracking it down, DreamCard sets the
> path to the image as "/test.jpg", completely ignoring the global
> thePath.  Why would DreamCard not set the global thePath?

Is the stack downloaded or cloned?  In those cases the stack would have
no fileName, giving the result described.
Otherwise, I haven't a clue.  And even then, the behavior should not
differ from Rev or MC.
--
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
- JRV
--
There are 10 kinds of people:  those who understand binary, and those 
who don't

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