Speaking as the person who most likely caused the change, I'm pretty sure that wasn't intentional. Definitely worth filing a bug report.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:02 PM Devin Asay <devin_a...@byu.edu> wrote: > I just noticed this change today as I was moving a project to LC 8. > > On Mac OS X, in v. 7 and earlier when you saved a stack as a standalone, > the defaultFolder would be set to the folder containing the .app bundle; > e.g., /Users/me/myproject. > > In v. 8 when you save a stack as a standalone the defaultFolder is set to > the app bundle itself; e.g., /Users/me/myproject/mystack.app. > > I have often used the pre-8 behavior to allow my standalone to easily > access files in the enclosing folder. V. 8 breaks that functionality. > > So is this a bug or a feature? I usually read the release notes pretty > closely, but don’t remember reading about this change? It can potentially > break lots of projects like it did mine. (Although I can pretty easily come > up with a workaround.) > > The main question is, was this an intentional change or a regression bug? > > Devin > > > Devin Asay > Office of Digital Humanities > Brigham Young University > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode