Woo Hoo!
I got all the kinks out.
For the virtual map path I wrote a small function that uses the mapPaths.getFullFilePath method to ask Max where it found the maps:
fn resolve_paths a =
(
for i = 1 to a.count do
(
a = mapPaths.getFullFilePath (filenameFromPath a.filename)
)
a
)
Note that this function only returns the names and location of the bitmaps and not the entire class objects that were sent in the array.
Instead of using the trim_dups function I wrote a simple function that writes a new array while checking for duplicates:
fn trim_dups_ver2 a =
(
swap=#()
k = 1
for i = 1 to a.count do
(
second_occurance = false
for j = 1 to swap.count do
(if swap == a do second_occurance = true)
if second_occurance == false and a != "" do
(
swap = a
k = k + 1
)
)
a = swap
a
)
Here are the function calls:
all_bm = resolve_paths all_bm
all_bm = trim_dups_ver2 all_bm
This new code works great to resolve all the virtual map path locations and eliminates trimming problems. Instead of allowing the rest of the MapCollector to perform a copy command I rewote it to use the Maz() mehtod to put all the bitmaps in a zip file and then copy that. I then have the Render Manager do the rest.
- Roy.
