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In article <josteisv.109.724387080@dhhalden.no>, josteisv@dhhalden.no (JOSTEIN SVENDSEN) writes:
> In article <1992Dec14.094710.12758@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
>>From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
>>Subject: Re: Saving Quicktime movies in Hypercard/Supercard stacks?
>>Date: 14 Dec 92 09:47:10 +1300
>>In article <josteisv.103.724050695@dhhalden.no>, josteisv@dhhalden.no (JOSTEIN SVENDSEN) writes:
>>> We are using the QT Movie XCMDs to play Quicktime movies in Hypercard and
>>> Supercard. But we haven't been able to include the movies in the stack.
>>
>>It seems to me you should be able to put "moov" resources into your stack, but
>>not the actual movie data. I can describe a procedure for you to try if you're
>>interested, but is it really worth it?
>
> Yes, I think so. Most stacks we make should be possible to distribute. But
> it's difficult when we don't know the path to the films "at playtime" when
> we make the stacks. Now, the stack must ask the user to locate the films
> before playing.

Putting movie resources into the stack isn't going to help this, that I can
see. Even with the "moov" resource in the stack, you'll still have to find
the movie data file. What kind of error message does QTMovie return if it
fails to resolve a movie alias?

Actually I was thinking it *might* be possible to append the movie data onto
the end of the stack itself, but a) that would require a special utility to
do it and b) you would destroy the movie, and possibly the stack as well, if
you tried to make any further changes to the stack.

> 1. We have thought about putting "moov" recources into HC stacks, but we
>    don't know how to pass the path to the QT Movie XCMD.

How about using "the long name of this stack"? This returns a string like

	stack "My HD:Experimental Folder:Look at this neat stack"

The quick-and-nasty way of getting the pathname without the quotes is to
use the expression "the value of word 2 of the long name of this stack".
The main thing I can think of that could cause this expression to fail
is if your pathname contains quotes in it somewhere.

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