Referenced control

[Klaus Major]

Dag Ryno,

> I want to put a large movie (126 Mb) onto a CD and play it from a Rev 
> standalone file. Part of our school yearbook...
>
> (Rev does not appear to want to build a standalone with an imported 
> movie of this size. Is there an optimum file size not to exceed when 
> building a standalone?)

An old rule of thumb (from the old MetaCard staff!):

A stack will work BEST, if it is not bigger than 4 to 5 MB...
OK, that was a couple of years ago and today maybe 10-15 MB...??? WILD 
guess ;-)

> It was simple to reference it on the Mac and it works well in the Rev 
> stack building environment.
> Next, I built a standalone for the Windows platform, half expecting 
> the movie to be in the data folder.
> It isn't.

Yep, Rev does not copy referenced files to the standalone folder...

> Where should I put the movie, and at what point?

How do/would you reference the movie on your mac?

> If I am to put it on the CD, together with the standalone, but not 
> inside the data folder,
> is it enough simply to have it in the same folder as the Rev stack 
> while referencing it?

I all depends on the FILENAME of your player-object...

Of course you could set it dynamically, but i would suggest to use 
relative paths right away
also in the dev environment...

This way there won't be any problems ever with referenced files 
(images/sounds/videos etc...)

I always set the directory to the stack i am working at and that will 
become the standalone...

When a standalone starts up, "the directory" is automatically set to 
the folder the standalone
"lives" in...

So if you have a folder "videos" (or subfolders or whatever) inside 
this folder (where the standalone...)
you can simply set the filename of your player to 
"videos/its_the_arts.mov" and it will be found...

I mostly use the import button and then delete the first part of the 
resulting absolute part! Less typos ;-)

So:

/Volumes/Ablage/videos/McLaughlin/john_shakti1.mov

will become:

videos/McLaughlin/john_shakti1.mov


Rev will use an absolute path if available and will also be happy to 
find a relative path
inside the current folder a.k.a "the directory"...

So in dev environment i set the directory to:

/Volumes/Ablage

and relative paths work very fine, ALWAYS!


Hope that helps :-)

> Baie dankie uit Kaapstad.
>
> Ryno.
> home page: http://artistvision.org (...a work in progress...)
> weblog: http://creatingfineart.blogspot.com/

To dan...


Best from germany

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de