On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:44:16 -0500, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Thanks for tips jacque.
1. Home stack lost it's icons. Reassigning icons would not help and
the
strange thing is that icons are appearing when mouse is down over the
button and stay afterwards but are disappearing on next launch.
Did you add the startup script to the first card of your home stack?
That prevents the problem.
on startup
if the version >= "2.7" then
-- open stack "mctools.mc" -- for Windows
start using stack "mctools.mc"
set the defaultStack to "home"
reset cursors
end if
pass startup
end startup
Yes, except I don't have "Pass startup" because a while ago you
advised me that while it would not harm it doesn't make sense to have
it in this case :)
if the version >= "2.7" then
start using stack "mctools.mc"
if the platform <> "MacOS" then
open stack "mctools.mc"
end if
set the defaultStack to "home"
reset cursors
end if
Also after I built standalone (powerPC) the MC built in icons (from
icon
chooser) are disappearing in standalone as well (I moved MC icons via
"resource mover" to would be standalone stack in advance)
Not like I care much about MC built in icons, but just curious, Is it
some kind of icon ID conflict? Home stack icons have ID range from
330
to 850. somebody had the same issue?
I haven't actually tried moving the MC icons into any stacks lately; I
don't use them much. But I can't think of anything in the new engine
that would prevent them from working as they did before.
other than the ID's of the icons are in range from 330 to 850 and may
be new engine has now this range reserved?
Another strange thing is that in case of "Home" stack, after
reassigning icons they do appear but only after mouse is pushed down
over the icon, so it may be that something else is going on there.
2. I moved engines from "Runtime" folder following Ken's
instructions.
"PowerPC-32" build was fine but button lost icon from MC icon chooser
stack as I mentioned above
It sounds like the icons didn't get placed into your stack. If you get
no icon at all, that would be the problem. If you get a different icon
than you expected, then it is probably an ID conflict.
Before building PowerPC standalone I moved "icon chooser" sub stack to
my stack via "Resource Mover" and when opening this stack in MC 2.7 Dev
environment the icon shows up fine. But after I'm building standalone,
the icon is disappearing (no icon at all).
"Universal" build fine but I can't launch it. It appears in dock
momentarily but immediately quits.
There was a discussion on the list about this a while ago. Did you make
a special runtime application bundle and then build your standalone
with
that?
I hope so, I followed Ken's very clear instructions exactly and made
special runtime for UB using Rev's runtime from "Universal" folder
Is it possible to move Rev windows runtime engine (x86-32) as well
and
use it to build windows standalone with MC standalone builder 2.6 ?
I should have tried first before asking but hope somebody would answer
"yes" / "no" and save me time :)
I'm not sure, I haven't tried it. Seems like it should work.
Each Rev "runtime" folder has "Externals" folder with db drivers,
speech, XML, revZip etc. Should this folder be moved as well and is
it a
way to include this externals in standalone using standalone builder ?
You can move that folder inside your standalone bundle and it should
work, but the Standalone Builder won't move it for you, you have to do
it manually. Your standalone should have its externals property set to
point to that folder.
OK, thanks for this info. It's probably more convenient to just build
standalone in Rev but I wanted to avoid "Rev Junk" placed in my
standalone. Some of my stacks are "image intensive" and this 200 - 1000
millisecond speed difference that Wilhelm discovered would matter.
how to get rid of "version: 2.5, copyright 1992-2002 MetaCard
corporation" in get info of standalone?
I tried to edit pList file in standalone but nothing is changing
You did it right. The Finder gets all the info from the plist file. But
it does not always update its database right away, you have to force it
sometimes. One way to do this is to zip the standalone, throw away the
original, and then unzip the copy. When the unzipped copy appears, it
should show the edited information.
I actually remembered this tip and did zip / unzip but I'll try again.
In my MetaCard 2.7 bundle I have empty folder "Resources Disabled"
under "show package content" inherited from MetaCard 2.6.6 bundle.
And in standalone bundle under "show package content" I also see
empty
folder "PlugIns Disabled"
Is it "normal" ?
Yes, it's part of OS X. These appear if you enable/disable plugins from
the standalone's Get Info window in the OS X Finder. You should
probably
leave everything enabled.
I never did enable / disable from Get info but what matters is that
it's a "normal thing " :) thanks for tip
best regards
Tarik
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