Tip for handling external media files

Howard Bornstein bornstein at designeq.com
Mon Jul 15 22:49:01 EDT 2002


>When using media external to a stack, such as QuickTime files, you can use
>paths relative to the standalone (e.g., "/mediafolder/mymovie.mov").  This
>works well at runtime, but during development it requires that you keep your
>work files in the same folder as the Rev application

I know in other cases relating to relative paths, aliases work, so you 
may simply be able to put aliases to your external media into the Rev 
application folder rather than the files themselves. Not as slick as your 
functions, but easy to do. :-)

Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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