QuickTime on Windows

[J. Landman Gay]

Thanks Scott. I just this second figured it out. I didn't give enough 
info for you to know what was wrong.

QT is installed and I'm using long file paths, and it all works in the 
IDE. But -- here's what I left out -- I was running the standalone in 
Parallels from the "network" drive (i.e., the folder on my Mac.) All the 
"play audioclip" commands worked fine but players with sound files 
assigned didn't. Apparently QT doesn't like to load sound files from a 
virtually mounted drive. When I copied the sounds folder to the XP VM it 
started working.

The question is though, how come QT was happy to load the file when it 
was running in the IDE? Weird. Doesn't matter I guess, the standalone 
will always be on the same drive with the app. But I like to know these 
things.

Thanks again.

On 7/30/12 5:45 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
> Hi Jacque:
>
> Is QuickTime is installed or not?
>
> You say the system is XP -- way, way back, issues sometimes cropped up with
> players and filepaths.  I would imagine these were probably fixed by now,
> but FWIW, here are two notes I had saved as possible workarounds:
>
> -- use an absolute file reference with "file"
> set fileName of player 1 to \
>    "file:///volumes/primary/users/name/really_long_filename_here.mp3"
>
> -- swap out space characters with html
> replace space with "%20" in tURL
>
> Can't say these will help but they're simple so maybe worth a try.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
>
>
>
> Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know why a player object won't load an aiff file in a
>> standalone? It works fine in the IDE. The sound file does exist and the
>> filename for the player is correct.
>>
>> Windows XP
>> LiveCode 5.5.1
>>
>> Did the default setting for dontUseQT change?
>
>
>
>
>
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