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You are deleting the suffix for presentation purposes ?
When you want to load the file just put the .mov suffix back onto the file name :-
command uiLoadSelectedVideo
put the selectedtext of field "Video Menu" into theVideoName
put "Videos/" & theVideoName & ".mov" into theVideoFile
set the ...

Hey Klaus!
Haven't been at work for quiet a while - but I'm back!
I figured out the problem - when i replace ".mov" with EMPTY then the file extention will be deleted aswell, because i return theFiles then without the suffix! - so livecode isn't able to find the videos anymore!


preOpenCard ...

Hi KommBI,

welcome to the forum! :D

Another way, there are always a lot of ways to do something in LiveCode!, could be something like this:
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## Acting behind the "curtains" will speed thing up a LOT!
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replace ".mp4" with EMPTY in fld "your list of video fles here"
## remove all ...

In theGetFilesInFolder handler in the card script, insert the following instead of the final line (the "return theFiles" line):


-- divide each line at the file specification
set the itemdelimiter to "."
-- now go through the list
repeat for each line tLine in theFiles
-- grab everything up to ...

thank u guys for answering! gong to try it out after work!
going to keep u up 2 date!

Hello everybody!
I'm new to LiveCode, but I thinks its a great way to programm - that's why I already got the license!
Anyway I tryed to do this Lesson Creating a Video Library Application - with total success, but I dont want to have the file suffix within the List!
Can somebody may tell me how to ...