path names to CD across platforms

[Ken Ray]

Dan's idea is a good one, but I'd check D: through Z: in Windows (you
never know where they might have their CD installed).

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Dan Friedman
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 4:55 PM
> To: RunRev Mail List
> Subject: Re: path names to CD across platforms
> 
> 
> Byron,
> 
> Try this...  (This assumes that you pass a movie path without 
> the drive name/letter, and the CD (for the Mac) is named "myCDROM")...
> 
> 
>  put getMoviePath("datafiles/movies/movie001.mov") into mPath
> 
> 
>  function getMoviePath fileName
>    if the platform = "MacOS" then
>      if there is a file ("myCDROM/" & fileName) then
>        return ("myCDROM/" & fileName)
>      end if
>    else
>      if there is a file ("D:/" & fileName) then
>        return ("D:/" & fileName)
>      else if there is a file ("E:/" & fileName) then
>        --just incase they mapped the CD drive to "E"
>        return ("E:/" & fileName)
>      end if 
>    end if
>  
>    -- you might put some kind of warning or error
>    -- routine here.  Probably don't want to continue
>    -- if the movie was not found
> 
>    return false
>  end getMoviePath 
> 
> 
> There's probably a better way to do this, but it should work 
> (I didn't test it!).  Hope it helps,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> > Message: 10
> > Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:36:35 -0700
> > Subject: path names to CD across platforms
> > From: Byron Turner <byront at mac.com>
> > To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> > Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> > 
> > Forgive me if this gets posted twice, the first was held up 
> and this 
> > is urgent.  How would I compensate for the differences in file path 
> > names when deploying to OS 9, OS X and Windows?  For 
> example a movie 
> > resides on a CD . . how do we have one app that can be built for 
> > multiple platforms that can find the file regardless?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Byron
> 
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