Date: Fri Nov 6 04:56:14 MST 1998 From: Richard Bence <tech@headstartsoftware.co.uk> Subject: Using External Casts in VB and VC++This is a little known tip that was originally given to me by Stephane Comeau.
If you create a Director movie using external casts and then create Shockwave movies and casts from it, you will find that it does not run using the Shockwave ActiveX in Visual Basic or Visual C++.
This is due to the file location being set within VB/VC as something like:
c:\movie.dcr
When the ActiveX starts the movie, it only finds the 'dcr' file and not any associated casts. To solve this, enter the movie location as:
file:\\c:\movie.dcr
You should no find that the external casts are loaded and the movie runs.