movies in metacard?

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Thu Sep 8 15:36:59 CDT 2005


>In metacard you have these things called players... interesting.
>
>You tell the player the location of the filename. Also nice. E.g.
>
>directory/directory/foo.mov
>
>ok. nice so far. Here is my question: How can I get metacard to know that the
>file I am referring to is right there in the same folder as metacard *without
>indicating the full directory structure (e.g.
>c:\programs\metacard\project\foo.mov)?
>
>Is my question clear? I want to avoid indicating the entire 
>directory structure
>for obvious cross platform compatability on distribution. I'd rather 
>not import
>all the movies. I want to be able to refer to them locally either as in the
>same directory as the MC standalone or in a subdirectory of the directory in
>which the MC standalone is found *regardless* of the higher levels of the
>directory "above" the standalone.
>
>Is that possible? How?
>

Look at the filename property. You can use it to dynamically build 
the path to the movie file and pass that to your player.

Robert


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