Re: Director 11 and SW 11

[Mike Blaustein <mblaustein@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am not too familiar with this xtra, but is it shockwave safe to use 
that command?  In general, shockwave does not have access to the temp 
directory, and you need to do any sort of file manipulation in the 
dswmedia folder.

I just had a cursory glance at the online docs for the xtra, and found 
this which may be helpful...

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PRIVATE SOUNDS DIRECTORY

In Shockwave you must have a sounds directory specified before you can 
record audio files. In authoring or projectors you can specify any path 
for a recorded sound and load files from any path. If you decide to use 
a sounds directory in authoring or projector for convenience you can 
either set the path to the sounds directory using axSetEnvironmentInfo 
("soundsDirectory") or you can prompt the user for the path using 
axPromptForSoundsDirectory.

In Shockwave, there are two options: the first is to prompt the user for 
the path using axPromptForSoundsDirectory. The second option is to set 
the environment option "useDswMediaDirectory" to TRUE, and Audio Xtra 
will automatically detect and use the DswMedia support folder for your 
Shockwave player installation. This option was introduced in version 5.1 
of Audio Xtra.

In both cases you cannot set or query the "soundsDirectory" property 
using axSet or GetEnvironmentInfo, for security reasons. The path to the 
final sounds directory is stored internally and only available to Audio 
Xtra. The Shockwave movie can only work with files in the sounds 
directory. This applies to recording, playback and sound conversion.