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Offline algerdes

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Picture Effect Change Request
« on: May 13, 2020, 08:25:46 PM »
My sequence files get moved around from time to time.  On one computer my sequences are on:
C:\Christmas\xlights\2019\
with the various "shows" listed under that (per advice of KW in several videos.)

On another computer it may be located at:
D:\sequencing\2019\.

Currently, as far as I know, any picture placed into a sequence is referenced by a full path name:
C:\Christmas\xlights\2019\LWW Main\Media\Images\FrostyPlaying.gif.

If I move the sequences to another directory or computer (such as the D: above), I have to go back through and re-point (or reassign) the pictures to their new home - even though they are in the same relative spot within the sequence file structure.

Is there any way of referencing them as (or something close to):
Media\Images\FrostyPlaying.gif
with the root being the main directory of the sequence files?

I used to call this absolute reference (what we have now) and a relative reference (what I would like to see).    Relative referencing makes so much sense in my book.


Offline keithsw1111

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Re: Picture Effect Change Request
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2020, 05:22:38 AM »
If you don?t change the show folder the absolutes are already turned into relative. It is something you are doing.