Yes, Devin, in using your script for Macintosh using LC 6.7 and higher: set the filename of player 1 to the defaultFolder & "/media/mymovie.mov"
that appears to let the movie show after the standalone is transferred to other Mac or Windows computers. I thank you for pointing that out. However, with that script, I am now unable to see the movie in the stack prior to creating the standalone. Any suggestion for that? Thanks. Stephen Goldberg www.medmaster.net 2015 16:03:58 +0000 From: Devin Asay <devin_a...@byu.edu> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Subject: Re: Movie problems in LiveCode Message-ID: <fa91918f-9901-491f-babc-2b2747914...@byu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" On Mar 30, 2015, at 6:00 AM, stgoldb...@aol.com wrote: > I do not know why we?re getting such different results. On Mac version 10.9.5, using LC 7.0.3, if I write the following script in the openCard handler: > > on openCard > set the filename of player 1 to ?media/mymovie.mov? > answer the filename of player 1 > end openCard > > then, while the movie will show in the player, I get the absolute path as an answer to the filename, rather than the relative path. This is confirmed by opening up the movie player property inspector and finding the absolute path in the fileName field (in my case, /Users/stephengoldberg/Desktop/Script words/Media/myMovie.mov) The behavior of player objects vis-a-vis relative paths has definitely changed in 6.7 and higher, as detailed in the bug report I posted a few days back. (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14435). There is apparently a fix of some kind due out in one of the next builds. In the meantime, or perhaps as a best practice, it seems like instead of setting the players filename property to a relative path (which *should* work but doesn?t), you should do this: set the filename of player 1 to the defaultFolder & ?/media/mymovie.mov? Or use whatever full file path is appropriate: set the filename of player 1 to specialFolderPath(?Documents?) & ?/media/mymovie.mov? Interestingly, in my own development work, it turns out I always use this method, and like Jacque, don?t have the problem Stephen is reporting. But in my teaching I have often demonstrated the technique of setting the defaultFolder to say, the parent folder of the mainstack, and setting the filename property to a relative path, like Stephen does. It was as I was testing this technique for a recent class that I discovered the change in behavior, which broke this capability in 6.7.x Devin Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
