Win98 loses path

[Thomas J McGrath III]

I put the image folder at the root level although the exe is in a 
subfolder with the autorun.inf pointing to the exe in the subfolder.

Everything works OK now.

Now how about the mac autorun????

Tom

On Jan 8, 2004, at 10:12 AM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote:

>
> On Jan 8, 2004, at 2:04 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 7, 2004, at 10:57 PM, Thomas J McGrath III 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> OK, my relative paths are messed up!!
>>>
>>> I put the autorun.inf file at the root level of my CD. It points to 
>>> "open=unity\UnityCD.exe" where the executable is in a folder called 
>>> "Unity". In that same folder is my images folder called "media".
>>> Anyway, it works and auto runs the standalone app on Win XP and Win 
>>> 2000.
>>
>> Some ideas...
>>
>> Does double clicking on the app allow the images to be seen?
>> If so, then for Windows, something might be amiss with the 
>> defaultFolder.
>>
>> You might...
>> 1. try displaying it in a test version and go from there.
> What kind of test? like one image and a close box?
>
>> 2. try putting a copy of media at the root.
> That sounds interesting
>
>> 3. try testing for this situation and changing the defaultFolder.
> That's the problem. I have so many scripts that use variations of the 
> defaultFolder that should work.
>
>> 4. try fiddling with a batch file that changes the working directory 
>> or something.
> That would not work for me since I am on a Mac.
>
>> Are your image paths like this:  media/bell.gif
>> Or like this: ./media/bell.gif
>> ?
> media/slide1.png
>
>> I have some vague memory of the working directory being different for 
>> 98 and 2000 with autorun, but I don't know what is what.
>>
>> If you have to get something out the door, you might try #2.  It is 
>> ugly, but it might work.
> I am trying #2 right now. get back to you.....
>
> Tom
>> Just some ideas.
>>
>> Dar Scott
>>
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