Absolute paths for Quicktime movies?

[Klaus Major]

Hi Wilhelm,

> Thanks for the responses. I am sorry, but these relative paths do not
> work here.
>
> They worked - for years - with earlier versions, but not with the latest
> Metacard version on Windows 98. I tried on two different computers. No
> problems with image and sound files, but with mov-files.

Hmmm...!?

I am working with the latest version and win98 (which sucks extremely, 
but that is another story ;-)
and still no trouble with movies.

> What works from any drive is
>
> "put the effective filename of this stack into NewPath
>   set the itemdel to "/"
>   delete last item of NewPath
> put "/whatever.mov" after last item of NewPath
> set the filename of Player 1 to NewPath".
>
> Regards and thanks,
>
> Wilhelm Sanke

But as always:

As long there is a way to get it to work, use it and dont ask.
There won't be an answer anyway ;-)

(old asian fancy talk ;-)

Happy Pfingsten ;-)


Best

Klaus Major
k_major at osnabrueck.netsurf.de