OS X Standalone Prog Folder Problem?
Thomas McGrath III
3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Mon Feb 9 19:54:39 EST 2004
You may be right about that. I don't know why it does that. I use a
fixdefaultfolder when I run in the ide so it more matches the final
state it will be in instead of through REV file path. THis works for
me.
OH well
TOm
On Feb 9, 2004, at 5:27 PM, Peter Reid wrote:
> Hmmm. Thanks for the thought, but why does it WORK inside the
> development environment under OS X? I would have thought that it
> would fail BOTH as a standalone AND in the development environment
> under OS X?? My folder structure is:
>
> Standalone App
> support folder
> support files
>
> I've used this approach for ages, including with projects using
> earlier versions (v1.1.1) of RunRev under OS X, and not had this
> problem before. It seems as though something has changed or there is
> a bug?!
>
>> Just a thought, My classic apps have a data folder with the .rev file
>> in it. Could that be where your file path starts? If so it is one
>> level deeper than your OSX app. I had a similar problem with an
>> autorun win cd and ended up having to put the media at the root level
>> for OS9 and OSX but also have it available one level deep for the win
>> file. In future projects I will know this and always put my media at
>> least one level deep in separate folders. i.e.:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Feb 9, 2004, at 1:15 PM, Peter Reid wrote:
>>
>>> I'm using Rev 2.1.2 under Mac OS X 10.3.2 to build an app. If I run
>>> the app inside the development environment, or as a standalone
>>> Classic app, then it works fine. However, if I run the OS X app
>>> built at the same time, then it fails to locate the support folder
>>> and files in the same folder as the app.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions please, this was meant to be a "quick" rehosting as
>>> part of a general upgrade from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, but currently
>>> my client will have to run the app in Classic mode as the OS X
>>> version doesn't work!
>>
>> Thomas J. McGrath III
>
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