At 11:51 PM -0600 12/29/00, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
>To make a Windows standalone on a Mac, download the Win32 version of
>MetaCard from the ftp server. You can download directly to your Mac. Use
>StuffIt Expander to extract the .zip archive. Look for a file in the
>uncompressed archive called MC.exe. It will have a generic icon, but it
>is the whole MetaCard engine regardless. Note the path to the file. Then
>launch MetaCard/Mac and build the standalone as usual, but point it to
>the MC.exe file in the field that asks for which engine to use. Because
>the Mac version of MC won't "see" the Windows file on your Mac disk, you
>can't use the browse button to find it -- you will have to type in the
>file path manually. Remember to use "/" instead of colons in the file path.
One small suggestion (otherwise this is exactly what I have done, and
I was impressed when it worked without a hitch): the browse button
can't see the mc.exe file because it's looking for applications.
Instead of typing in the whole path, I duplicated SimpleText into the
same folder as mc.exe. Then when I want to build a PC app, I choose
SimpleText with the browse button, and then I just have to change
SimpleText to mc.exe in the path, rather than type the whole path in.
I suppose you could use a file typing utility (some have been written
in MetaCard) to change the type of mc.exe to APPL, but that might add
a resource fork and cause a problem. I don't know.
Regards,
Geoff
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