bug or feature in player filename?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 12/13/2014, 8:37 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:
> I’m in version 6.7.0 on Macintosh. I’m not very good at searching for
> bugs, so it’s possible it’s a fixed bug.
>
> If you set a player filename to an invalid filename, by hand or by
> script, the player seems to play the last valid filename entered,
> even though the invalid filename continues to display in the “source”
> field.
>
> It wouldn’t happen very often by hand, because normally one clicks on
> the button next to the “source” field, to get a dialog box of
> filenames.
>
> If you (I) don’t know about this, it can drive you (me) crazy when
> trying to figure out why a script isn’t working right.  To make the
> experience even more vexatious, the result is empty when you play the
> player, by click or script. If this is mentioned in the
> documentation, I can’t find it.
>
> Bug or feature?

It seems like expected behavior. If the file path is wrong, nothing 
happens and the player retains whatever it was previously set to. If 
there was a filename set then it stays there. The engine doesn't remove 
the previous filename before trying to set a new one.

If you get "the result" after setting the filename from a script, it 
will tell you if the path is wrong; I think it says something like 
"unable to set movie reference" or similar. If you're typing it into the 
IDE manually via the inspector, delete the existing name first (and tab 
out of the field) to make sure the filename is empty, then try adding 
the new file name. If nothing happens, it's wrong.

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