Re: where files are copied to in a Mac standalone - changed in 8.1?

2016-10-17 Thread Graham Samuel 
Confirmed, at least on my Mac. Reported (bug 8619). Means code in the IDE has 
to be different from code in the standalone, which defeats the purpose of the 
handy wheeze mentioned by Jacqu, you might think!

Graham

> On 16 Oct 2016, at 23:58, I wrote:
> 
> Thanks for that very interesting observation Jacque. Since reading your mail 
> I’ve been using this new arrangement, but I **think** I’ve just noticed that 
> 
>  specialFolderPath(“resources”) 
> 
> generates a path with a “/“ at the end in a standalone, but omits the “/“ 
> when in the IDE. Maybe I’m just a bit tired - it’s late here. If it’s true 
> though, it must be a bug.
> 
> Someone might like to test this, or I will tomorrow.
> 
> Graham
> 
>> On 14 Oct 2016, at 07:22, J. Landman Gay  wrote:
>> 
>> On 10/13/16 6:17 PM, Curtis Ford wrote:
>>> I've just made a new module for this client with largely the same code;
>>> now LiveCode 8.1 saves the files in Contents > Resources > _MacOS > media.
>>> 
>>> So the standalone doesn't find the sound files unless I move them
>>> manually after doing 'show contents' in the Finder.
>>> 
>>> Is this a bug, or should I be setting the path differently now?
>> 
>> Apple now requires all resources to be in a separate folder. Nothing is 
>> allowed in the engine folder except the executable. We now have a new 
>> specialFolderPath("resources") to access that folder.
>> 
>> Instead of parsing a path from the engine folder, use:
>> 
>> specialFolderPath("resources") & "/media/" & gMediaPath
>> 
>> Everything in the Copy Files pane of the standalone settings now gets put 
>> into specialFolderPath("resources").
>> 
>> In the IDE, the resources folder is the one that contains your mainstack. 
>> This is handy because you can keep the same hierarchy in your working folder 
>> and the specialFolderPath still works there.
>> 
>> -- 
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>> HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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Re: where files are copied to in a Mac standalone - changed in 8.1?

2016-10-16 Thread Graham Samuel 
Thanks for that very interesting observation Jacque. Since reading your mail 
I’ve been using this new arrangement, but I **think** I’ve just noticed that 

  specialFolderPath(“resources”) 

generates a path with a “/“ at the end in a standalone, but omits the “/“ when 
in the IDE. Maybe I’m just a bit tired - it’s late here. If it’s true though, 
it must be a bug.

Someone might like to test this, or I will tomorrow.

Graham

> On 14 Oct 2016, at 07:22, J. Landman Gay  wrote:
> 
> On 10/13/16 6:17 PM, Curtis Ford wrote:
>> I've just made a new module for this client with largely the same code;
>> now LiveCode 8.1 saves the files in Contents > Resources > _MacOS > media.
>> 
>> So the standalone doesn't find the sound files unless I move them
>> manually after doing 'show contents' in the Finder.
>> 
>> Is this a bug, or should I be setting the path differently now?
> 
> Apple now requires all resources to be in a separate folder. Nothing is 
> allowed in the engine folder except the executable. We now have a new 
> specialFolderPath("resources") to access that folder.
> 
> Instead of parsing a path from the engine folder, use:
> 
>  specialFolderPath("resources") & "/media/" & gMediaPath
> 
> Everything in the Copy Files pane of the standalone settings now gets put 
> into specialFolderPath("resources").
> 
> In the IDE, the resources folder is the one that contains your mainstack. 
> This is handy because you can keep the same hierarchy in your working folder 
> and the specialFolderPath still works there.
> 
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> 
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re: where files are copied to in a Mac standalone - changed in 8.1?

2016-10-14 Thread Curtis Ford 

Ah OK, that makes sense. Thanks Jacque!

Curt
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Re: where files are copied to in a Mac standalone - changed in 8.1?

2016-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay 

On 10/14/16 12:22 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

Instead of parsing a path from the engine folder, use:

  specialFolderPath("resources") & "/media/" & gMediaPath


Actually, that should probably be:

   specialFolderPath("resources") & "/media/" & 

unless gMediaPath is just a file name.

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Re: where files are copied to in a Mac standalone - changed in 8.1?

2016-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay 

On 10/13/16 6:17 PM, Curtis Ford wrote:

I've just made a new module for this client with largely the same code;
now LiveCode 8.1 saves the files in Contents > Resources > _MacOS > media.

So the standalone doesn't find the sound files unless I move them
manually after doing 'show contents' in the Finder.

Is this a bug, or should I be setting the path differently now?


Apple now requires all resources to be in a separate folder. Nothing is 
allowed in the engine folder except the executable. We now have a new 
specialFolderPath("resources") to access that folder.


Instead of parsing a path from the engine folder, use:

  specialFolderPath("resources") & "/media/" & gMediaPath

Everything in the Copy Files pane of the standalone settings now gets 
put into specialFolderPath("resources").


In the IDE, the resources folder is the one that contains your 
mainstack. This is handy because you can keep the same hierarchy in your 
working folder and the specialFolderPath still works there.


--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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