Off topic ... Shockwave and Valentina

Sean Wilson snw at paradise.net.nz
Tue Aug 17 11:36:29 CDT 2004


> > Technically this Xtra is not SW safe then.  SW movies are not allowed to
> > access files outside the dswmedia folder unless the user is given a dialog
> > to select them.
>Yes.
>If I understand it correctly then we need to add some code in V4MD Xtra to
>determine whether it is used in Shockwave movie so then it will
>allow create database files only in dswmedia folder. So if user passed to
>createDatabase() method path "MyDb.vdb" then database will be created
>in dswmedia folder.
>But what to do in case when user is given a dialog to select path for
>database?
>What if user select path outside of this folder?

Perhaps I misunderstood the direction the client xtra was taking, but 
wasn't the point that it *required* a server to communicate with and that 
the server was responsible for databases and (relative) paths to them?

-Sean. 




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