CD Run-tim & reference to pics

[marija]

Hello: I am putting a run-time db on a CD. I want to have references to pics and include the images on the CD. I need some suggestions on how to place the images with the CD's path. Is there some place that stores the path info that I can get out and change?

Currently, I am using an applescript to import the references, and I don't want to import the actual pics into the db.

Here's what I tried: I created a CD that has the same path as what the image path would be on the final cd. Then when I made the run-time app, I included the images from the CD as the same path on the new CD. This seemed to make the Mac play nice, but not the PC version.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!!

[jwmickelson]

This is a bit tricky, FileMaker Pro has not digned to allow us, the developer, any direct access to references to files. Now you mentioned images, but images tend to be stored in the file and hence are displayable in any platform, so I'm assumming there is the 'Store Reference Only' feature somewhere in here.

Macs and PC's handle file paths totally differently, PC's use an absolute path structure and Macs have a similar structure, but based upon the names of volumes etc...

One way to simulate these is to us ethe open URL script step where you say something like "C:filepathimage.img" and this can work but you'll need to replace this with the CD paths. I doubt this will solve the problem you described but it has helped me in other instances.

As far as I know, there is no way to make the paths of Mac and PC images, when stored as a reference, appear to both when they are on a disk using the same file system.

We have a demo CD we make for our software, and we have had to make a dual Mode CD which has both a PC partition of our software and a Mac partition, totally independant from eachother. This may help you, but the CD muct be made on a Mac, because I don't know any PC software that'll burn a Mac partition.

I hope this helps, and I'm sure others would benefit greatly from hearing how you solve this problem, so I encourage you to post your solution here!

-Luck!

Jonathan

[marija]

Well, here's what I did and it seems to be working well. First of all, I used Troi's excellent File Plug-in to import references to the images, BUT I imported them through windows. I just thought, on a lark, to import through windows and see how Mac handles them. So far, so good! I just imported the reference on windows and Mac handles them well.

As for the path, and the need to burn everything to a CD, I wrote the images only to a CD, being careful to name the path exactly the same as it will be on the final CD. When I wrote the final CD, I used the same path and included my run-time files. And so it works.