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Posted: **Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:51 pm**

Hi Everyone

I'm having some path issues with this program which is nearly finished!
Its cross-platform and all I'm trying to do is launch an html file from a little intro stack which plays off a cd.

The html file launches fine on the Mac but I can't get Windows to go for it. Here's my script:

on mouseUp
if the platform is "MacOS" then
set the itemDel to slash
put "file://" into myCD
put item 1 to -5 of the effective filename of this stack into myPath
put "/PDFs/etc etc/index.html" after myPath
revGoURL myCD && myPath
else if the platform is "Win32" then
set the itemDel to slash
put item 1 to -5 of the effective filename of this stack into myPath
put "/PDFs/etc etc/index.html" after myPath
revGoURL & myPath
if not (there is a file myPath) then
beep
answer error "Can't find file" && myPath
else
end if
end if
end mouseUp

I tried putting file:// infront but that does nothing. Windows tries to put 'http:' in the browser on previous efforts whereas to view it manually, the browser has the drive letter. But obviously, each PC might have a different cd drive letter?

How can I get Windows to put the right prefix for the browser?

Thanks in advance

Posted: **Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:57 am**

Hi Stormy1,

I believe that file URL's should start with file:///Macintosh HD/folder/file on Mac and with file:///C:/folder/file.

Explorer indeed adds http:// in front of the URL. This only happens with file URL's and not with URL's that assume the http protocol.

I'm pretty sure this is a Rev bug.

Best,

Mark

Posted: **Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:13 am**

Hi Mark

Thanks for your response.
I have actually managed to get a script which works on Windows now after some trial and error:

on mouseUp
if the platform is "MacOS" then
set the itemDel to slash
put "file://" into myCD
put item 1 to -5 of the effective filename of this stack into myPath
put "/PDFs/etc etc /index.html" after myPath
revGoURL myCD & myPath
else if the platform is "Win32" then
set the itemDel to backslash
put "D:\" into myCD
put item 1 to -5 of the effective filename of this stack into myPath
put "\PDFs\etc etc\index.html" after myPath
launch document myCD & myPath
end if
end mouseUp

This now opens the file in the browser however, my only worry is whether the cdrom drive letter is different from the standard D: on the users machine. Is there anyway of checking what drive letter they have and incorporating it into the myCD variable?

Thanks as always

Posted: **Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:19 am**

Dear Stormy1,

When you create your CD, make sure that it has a label. This allows you to use the following function to retrieve label information:

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function volumeLabels
   put the volumes into myVols
   repeat for each line myDrive in myVols
      put volLabel(myDrive) into myLabel
      if myLabel is empty then put char 1 of myDrive into myLabel
      put myLabel & tab & char 1 of myDrive & cr after myList
   end repeat
   return char 1 to -2 of myList
end volumeLabels

function volLabel theDrive
   put shell("vol" && theDrive) into myInfo
   if number of lines of myInfo is 2 then
      return last word of line 1 of myInfo
   else return empty
end volLabel

Call the volumeLabels function and use an array or the lineOffset function to find the drive. Here's an example using an array:

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  put volumeLabels() into myLabels
  split myLabels by cr & tab
  put myLabels["MyCD"] into myDrive
  -- do anything you like with myDrive here

On the Mac, you should be able to refer to a file path directly, using the label of the CD (/Volumes/MyCD/Folder/File.ext)

Best regards,

Mark

Posted: **Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:45 am**

Thanks Mark

Will give that a go

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