linked media when running on server

[Jan Schenkel]

--- RGould8 at aol.com wrote:
> If I have a Revolution "thin client" that just has a
> simple "go to stack 
> http://stackfromserver " type of logic, and I want
> that stack on the server to 
> pull in images stored on the server, instead of
> stored within the stack, do I 
> need to do something special with the pathnames to
> the graphics?
> 
> The reason I ask, is because on my server, I've got
> a .rev file called 
> "calendar.rev", which pulls in images,
> "backgroundA.bmp", or "backgroundB.bmp", 
> depending on a variable that gets set.  If I have
> these images stored in the same 
> directory as the .rev file on the server, and set
> the sourcefile name under 
> "PROPERTIES" for that image to "backgroundA.bmp" - -
> I get a blank object when 
> the app gets run from the local PC.  (The app that
> has the "go to stack on 
> server" call.)  The other elements display fine - -
> - it's just the background 
> image that's missing, (it's a gray rectangle), which
> makes me think it's a path 
> problem.
> 

That does indeed sound like a path problem ; you could
try copying your images to the server into a folder
images, and the changing the references to :
  http://www.myserver.com/images/backgroundA.bmp

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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