von dp am 22.Dezember 96 um 19:16:08:
zu: Perlen aus dem Strom der Nachrichten im direct_L von Daniel am 22.Dezember 96 um 02:00:59:
>This is twist from the usual hybrid development. I am currently
>developing a web site where there is planned links to digital video
>content with a user will have on their CD-ROM player. The Web site will
>have material that (as planned) launch QT or .avi locally creating a
>high quality and visually stimulating experience.
>
>This is my quandary: can this be done? and if so should there be links
>within a shckwave doc. Can Shockwave be "smart" enough to recognize the
>CD-ROM "path"? Should we create a local .htm doc on the cd-rom that
>will bring the user to the website and then link back and forth through
>lingo?
You ought to be able to run the standard FileIO Xtra or XObject
from a Shockwave piece, as long as you take care of putting the
plug-in in the appropriate Shockwave support folder. You can
then use the technique (well covered in the Direct-L digests
on the Director Web at Maricopa Community College) of checking
for a known file name in a known folder on all possible
drive letters. From there you should be able to construct
an appropriate 'file:///' URL that points to a local digital
video file on the CD-ROM .
- Glenn M. Picher
Probably the best way to do this is to have an installer program on the
CD-ROM place aliases or shortcuts to the actual video content into the
Shockwave support folder which is inside the plugins folder. Then have
your Shockwave apps refer to these files. Check the Macromedia Shockwave
docs for details on refering to content in this support folder.
Outside of doing this, I don't know of any other way to refer to the
files on the CD-ROM, as that would be considered insecure by web
standards.
-Michael Hicks
Rick Sutter wrote on Nov 26, "This is twist from the usual hybrid development.
I am currently developing a web site where there is planned links to digital
video content with a user will have on their CD-ROM player. The Web site will
have material that (as planned) launch QT or .avi locally creating a high
quality and visually stimulating experience. This is my quandary: can this be
done? and if so should there be links within a shckwave doc. Can Shockwave be
'smart' enough to recognize the CD-ROM 'path'? Should we create a local .htm
doc on the cd-rom that will bring the user to the website and then link back and
forth through lingo? Thank you in advanced!"
I think I saw something very similar to this discussed on the list recently...
previous DIRECT-L messages may provide a few leads here.
(May also be talking about putting an alias to a CD-stored cast library in the
browser's support folder for linking to those local videos, as described in the
ShockDocs... am not sure if that's the intended design or not.)
Regards,
John Dowdell
27.11.96
D. Plänitz