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Revlets with Assets One of the great features of Rev is that you can reference images, sounds and movies from external files and use them in your stacks. But can you do this with a revlet? Well yes, you can and this lesson will show you how. Using a filename to reference an imageLets start with a very simple example. In Rev we can use the filename of an image file to display an image in our stack, this is particularly useful if you might want to change the image at a later date, you can just replace the file with no need to make changes to your stack or rebuild your standalone. First we just need to add an Image Area to our stack, in this case lets call it "logo". Setting the filenameNow we set the filename of the Image Area, you can do this in script set the filename of image "logo" to "G:/Documents/Elanor/Lessons/resource referencing/enterprise.gif" or using the select button in the property inspector (1) Relative and Absolute PathsYou can use both relative and absolute file paths for desktop applications, relative paths will always be resolved in relation to the current folder. For example set the filename of image "logo" to "enterprise.gif" Would also work here, assuming the current folder is G:/Documents/Elanor/Lessons/resource referencing. Referencing an image using a urlYou can also use urls to refernce images. For example I have an image uploaded to my on-rev account and I can display it in my stack using set the filename of image "logo" to "http://elanorb.on-rev.com/lessons/revLogo.jpg" Referencing an image in a revletYou don't need to do anything extra to reference images from a revlet using filenames, there are just two small things to look out for. 1. You must use absolute urls What about videos?You can use urls to reference sound and movie files in the same way as images, again revlets work very similarly to desktop applications you just need to ensure your stack has access to them. Lets create a simple stack that allows us to watch movies online using a revlet. Firstly we will create a new stack, and add a player object called "movie" (1), a drop down menu called "clip choice" (2) and "Stop" and "Play" buttons to control our player(3). Scripting our interfaceNow we need to script our buttons, Stop and Play are simple just on mouseUp and on mouseUp Our menu is a little more complicated, but not much. First we add our options, in this example I am using clips of intevies with Charlie Faddis and Malte Brill from revLive.09. Then we add in some script to the menuPick handler, this will set the filename of the player and put the movie back to the start. on menuPick pItemName Watch our movies in a revletIf you want to see this working as a revlet you can try it out at http://elanorb.on-rev.com/lessons/movieplayer.html
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