What's the best way to tackle the following problem?
A QuickTime URL dataref to a local file seems to need the volume name in it, so
file:///Users/rolf/Deskop/test.mov doesn't work, whereas
file:///Volumes/Macintosh%20HD/Users/rolf/Desktop/test.mov does work.
They ought to be the same but they're not.
Is there a simple way to find the startup volume name? I can think of
a couple of ways using Runtime.exec(): do "ls -l /Volumes" and see
what links to /, or "osascript -e 'path to system folder'" and parse
the output, but these seem a bit fragile. Is there a more direct way
to find the volume name, or perhaps directly go from a POSIX path to
a file: URL in such a way that it works in QuickTime?
One thing I'm worried about if I do it myself is whether the
"standard" directory names are the same in other languages. Will they
still be called /Users, /Volumes, /System, ~/Library/Preferences etc.
if I choose French or Japanese as my language when installing Mac OS
X?
-Rolf
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Rolf Howarth
Square Box Systems Ltd
Stratford-upon-Avon UK.
http://www.squarebox.co.uk
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