The QT player in a standalone

[Dan Shafer]

Bob.....

Another great solution is to store the QT file as a custom property and
bundle it directly with the app. Voila! No file pathing problems.

Dan


On 5/4/06, Dr. Robert E. Ball <reball at redshift.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/4/06 5:14 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 5/5/06, Dr. Robert E. Ball <reball at redshift.com> wrote:
> >> I am unable to successfully develop a standalone (on a Mac with OS
> 10.4.6
> >> using Rev 2.7.1) from a stack containing a QT player. The stack works
> fine
> >> in the IDE and properly plays the video. No problems. However, when I
> try to
> >> build a standalone, no matter where I put the external QT file, with
> the
> >> appropriate location given in the Copy Files in the Standalone
> Application
> >> Settings, the standalone builder either does not attach the file as
> part of
> >> the application package, or even when it occasionally does attach it,
> the
> >> app doesn't play it. (I couldn't make a standalone that worked
> correctly in
> >> 2.5.1 either.) I can't find any information/tutorial on how to do this
> >> correctly.
> >
> >
> > I did a test using a button to locate the movie file as follows:
> >   answer file "Select a movie file:"
> >   put it into tFile
> >   if tFile is not empty then set the filename of player "Player" to
> tFile
> >
> > This worked perfectly in Rev 2.7.1 with Mac OS X 10.4.6, so I suspect
> > it is a file path problem and your app is not pointing to the correct
> > movie file.
> >
> > For testing, I suggest you try two things:
> > 1. add a button that just reports the filename of the player object so
> > that you can see exactly where it thinks the file should be.
> > 2. add another button that does what my test script does. That way you
> > will be able to confirm that the player object does what you want.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Sarah
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>
> Hello Sarah -- thank you so much for taking the time to help me out. If I
> wasn't going to distribute my standalone program to others, your
> suggestion
> would work. But I do intend to distribute it, so the QT files must be an
> internal part of the application package.
>
> Thus, my problem was not finding the absolute path to a QT file on my hard
> disk from the standalone application. My problem was getting the
> standalone
> builder to include the QT files in the standalone package, and then
> getting
> the standalone application to point to the files in the application
> package
> and play them.
>
> However, thanks to your suggestion, I was able to determine the solution
> to
> my problem. When I put the QT files in the same folder as the stack file
> and
> I added the files in the Copy Files in the Standalone Application Settings
> and located the player files in the Inspector, the file path was relative
> to
> the stack file, the QT files were not included in the standalone package,
> and (of course) the players in the standalone application didn't play. On
> the other hand, when I put the QT files in another folder, the file path
> in
> the Copy Files and the player files in the Inspector were absolute, the
> files were included in the standalone package, and it worked like a charm.
> Your suggestion to locate the file path using a button (in the standalone
> application) resulted in an absolute file path -- which led me to try out
> other locations for the QT files that resulted in absolute file paths in
> the
> Copy Files and player Inspector. Thank you.
>
> I sure wish Revolution would prepare a tutorial on the use of external
> files.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> --
> Robert E. Ball, PhD
> Distinguished Professor, Emeritus
> Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
> Naval Postgraduate School
> Monterey, California
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