Movie problems in LiveCode

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/26/2015 8:47 AM, stgoldberg at aol.com wrote:
> Richard and Jackie, does your reluctance to use relative paths
> also extend to the distribution of standalones, or is it just stacks
> that present the problem?

I do it mostly for the reasons Richard outlined -- more control over 
playback and media selection as well as the abilitly to specify 
different movie playbacks by reloading the same player object.

But I get the feeling you don't want to mess around with scripts, you 
just want to set a filepath once during development and forget about it. 
If the IDE is changing that path then you're right, you won't be able to 
do that during development. I'd submit a bug report.

But it shouldn't be an issue for a standalone. Selecting the "Copy 
referenced files" in the standalone builder's Copy Files pane should 
create a standalone where your referenced movies are converted to 
correct filepaths inside the standalone, which is probably what you're 
after. So that's a solution for standalones, even though during 
development you may be stuck with absolute paths.

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