Direct Show Problem btw Winxp pro and home?

[Renatos]

Hi Everyone,

I am finding a very strange issue with the DirectShow. I'll try to explain as much as I can so I hope it all makes sense.

I have an exe file, that calls ccn files included in a subfolder. These ccn files call other files that are in the same folder as the ccns.

When I use Apppath$+"foldername\filename" and compile on my work machine. The sound plays.

When I transfer that compiled ccn file to my laptop. It won't work. Now, IF I compile that mfa on my laptop, it works fine. Now as I transfer it back to my work machine, it stops working. It's exactly the same file. I even got the laptop and workstation side by side, with exactly the same files open, I did one thing in one, and the same exact thing in other. And the problem still happens.

One thing I am wondering, if it has to do with the fact my workstation has windows xp professional. My laptop, windows xp home edition, because when I take the file from my workstation that has winxp pro to my home computer that also includes winxp pro, they work fine.

Has anyone encountered this issue? Is there a fix? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Joshtek]

The only thing I can think of is to go to application properties and change the sound filter selection to be manual instead of automatic.

Edit: If you are playing the sound through DirectShow it won't use MMF2 filters anyway.

[Renatos]

I did a test. I added a list object, that adds the path of the file through the file object. On this workstation. When I run the app, it finds the file, and lists the fullpath on the list object. When I take the ccn file onto the laptop, the listfile is empty. Like it is not finding the file that IS there.

Basicly what I think is happening, is that unless I compile the ccn on the laptop, the application cannot locate the file. It's like compiling refreshes where the files are or something, and it works then.

[drnebula]

I have noticed differences in the way applications work between XP Home and XP Professional. One example is the way objects appear in front of or in back of other objects. With XP home, the objects appear "correctly" in back of an object. With XP pro, I had to add an always condition to always make the object be in front to get the same results.
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[Renatos]

the paths are not being updated when changing computers, or drives letter changes using Apppath$ or Appdrive$+Appdir$

[Renatos]

Hey guys, I've come to find out this was my fault after all. Basicly the subapps need to pull the current directory of the main application so by using CurrentDirectory$( "File" )+"\folder\file" the subapps went looked at the exe directory and not it's own