paths for PC and Mac. all : and \ 1

[styleBunny]

Hi folks

I have a stub projector which loads a movie in a sub folder thusly; "dswmedia\menu.dxr" This works fine on PC.

This works fine on pc, sure, but when I created a mac projector it says it can't find the menu.dxr. I replaced the \ with : so i was targeting like so "dswmedia:menu.dxr" but still i have no love I'm practically clueless with Macs, is there any fundamental things missing from my Mac targeting path?

Cheers,
Paul.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

All these should work:
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go movie "dswmedia:menu"
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go movie "@:dswmedia:menu"
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go movie the moviePath & "dswmedia:menu"
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By the way you don't need to use "dswmedia" directory unless you're testing Shockwave movies on the local machine.

 

[styleBunny]

Hi Kenneth,

Thanks for thoes i will give it a try. Thanks also for the heads up on dswmedia.

Perhaps you can tell me the mac alternative to autorun.inf?

Cheers
Paul.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

There's no autorun.inf in Mac, but if you want to make an auto-start CD for Mac you can do so using Toast (Mac CD burning software).

However, the auto-start feature can be turned off in the QuickTime settings and many Mac users do so to avoid virus infection. Also you cannot do auto-start under OS X - not easily at least.

I wouldn't worry too much for Mac auto-start; generally Mac users know how to use CD-ROMs very well!

Macromedia article on this subject:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/autostart_cd_qt20.htm