Win98 loses path

[Thomas J McGrath III]

I hope someone can help me on this one. I designed a CD to run on Mac 
OS9/OSX and Windows 2000/XP. But a lot of users are telling me they 
have Win 98 and although some of the CD works there is a rather big 
problem on 98. The following scripts do work in 2000 and XP but not in 
98. I put the development "fix" in so it can work from the location of 
my images folder.

  The problem is in the relative path that displays my images.
In my main stack I reference - media/Slide10.png - which is in my media 
folder with my final build. (These images do show up when referenced in 
the property inspector as ' media/Slide10.png ' etc. ) Then I have 
buttons over this image that open a substack based upon what the slide 
states. When the substack opens I then have this script to load what 
ever images are in a corresponding folder for this substack. (These 
images don't show up in 98 but do on all the other platforms listed 
below)

So if card one in main stack has a button that opens substack "31i" 
then I have a sub folder named "31i" and in it I have my png slide 
images.

Well the images do not appear in 98 but do work in 2000 and XP home and 
XP Pro. They work fine in OS9 and OSX (3.x).
What could be different about the defaultFolder in 98? Does anyone know?

This script is in my card script in each substack.
- snip-
global the_path, totalimages, currentimage, theimages -- theimages 
holds the list of images in the folder
  if the environment is "Development" then
     set the itemdel to "/"
     get the effective filename of this stack
     delete item -1 of it
     put it & "/media/31i/" into the_path -- folder "31i" has the images 
in my "media" folder
     put the directory into altdir
     set the directory to the_path
     put the files into theimages
     set the directory to altdir
   else
     put the directory into altdir
     put defaultFolder & "/media/31i/" into the_path
     set the directory to the_path
     put the files into theimages
     set the directory to altdir
   end if

This is in my openCard script:
-snip-
set the filename of image "slide" to the_path & line currentimage of 
theimages


this script is in my next button -- I have similar scripts in my 
Previous button and "home" button.
-snip-
  global the_path, totalimages, currentimage, theimages
   if currentimage < totalimages then
     put currentimage + 1 into currentimage
   else
     put 1 into currentimage
   end if
   lock screen
   set the filename of image "slide" to (the_path & line currentimage of 
theimages)



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Thomas J McGrath III	• 2003 •	3mcgrath at adelphia.net
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