Folks:
I’m building an app that reads a number of external data files. I’ve been
trying to create a standalone and have a number of problems with the external
files.
In my development area, I have a folder:
App folder which contains the .livecode app and data files. It looks like this:
myApp
myApp.livecode
files
images and icons
When I build the standAlone, I get a package with:
Contents
info.plist
MacOS
Externals
files
data
dataFolder1 —This is empty of files
dataFolder2 —This is empty of files
dataFolder3 —This is empty of files
moreData —empty, no data
etc
images and icons —nothing in this folder
myApp
PkgInfo
Resources
_MacOS —This has all of my data files, with correct contents
language Folders —I don’t need these
My question is:
Should I build the path to these files starting with “the effective path of
this stack”? It would be different, depending on whether I had a standalone. Is
there a specialFolderPath function that will give me the path to the original
data?
Alternatively, I could create these folders in my development environment and
then there would only be a single set of paths.
What are the “Best practices” regarding this? Also, do I need to include all
these superfluous, empty language folders?
Best,
Bill
William A. Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org/
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