file paths when using a stub projector

[Gone Platinum webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi

When I use a stub projector to open a .DIR file (rather than creating just one larger projector file), Director always tries to find any external Quicktime movies on the original hard drive, in the original directory etc etc. The result is a prompt asking the user to locate the correct Quicktime files which is not acceptable. Usually of course the project is not being produced for playback on the machine that I use for authoring, but rather should play on any machine. However, I don't have this problem if I create a projector, and not use a stub.

I know that for external sound files, it is possible using 'Sound Playfile ...' to specify a relative path, but what about video?

How do people get around this?

Phil

[JPrice]

> When I use a stub projector to open a .DIR file (rather than creating just
one larger projector file), Director always tries to find any external
Quicktime movies on the original hard drive, in the original directory etc
etc. The result is a prompt asking the user to locate the correct Quicktime
files which is not acceptable. Usually of course the project is not being
produced for playback on the machine that I use for authoring, but rather
should play on any machine. However, I don't have this problem if I create a
projector, and not use a stub.

>
> I know that for external sound files, it is possible using 'Sound Playfile

....' to specify a relative path, but what about video?

>
> How do people get around this?
>

I usually specify a full path by using something like:

pathdelim=(the moviepath).char[the moviepath.char.count]
movieFileName=the moviepath & "movies"& pathdelim "movie.mov" -- to get a
movie.mov in a subdir "movies"