Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Isn't it about time for Poser 9, and did you find P8 upgrade useful?

josterD opened this issue on Jul 10, 2010 · 160 posts


bagginsbill posted Thu, 29 July 2010 at 11:49 AM

Hold on. If I understand you, a file path that works inside the emulator is not the same as outside? If so, then that explains it.

The GUI is told, for example, that a thumbnail is at:

c:Some Path HereRuntimeLibrariesPropsPrimitivesCube.png

But from the linux viewpoint that isn't a real path, right? So anything running in the browser in Linux must use:

/home/someotherpath/.wine/c/Some Path Here/Runtime/Libraries/Props/Primitives/Cube.png

Or something like that, right?

So this is impossible. The GUI is being told the full path to the PNG thumbnails that are unusable outside the emulator.

This is a problem. Poser does not serve the PNG files to the GUI. It simply hands over the path, and the GUI reads them directly. Serving them would slow things down a lot, so we decided to let the GUI peek right into the file system.

This isn't about permissions, although that could be a problem as well. This is about the fact that Windows paths are not uniform resource locators as far as your OS is concerned. For apps running outside the emulator, they are meaningless strings of text.

If my assessment is not correct, please clarify how the real and virtual paths work across the two environments.


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