On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB <[email protected]>wrote:
> > noop same effect at that location > OK, lets go back to the beginning. Delete the app off your HD. If I remember you said it started out as a DMG on a CD, so when logged in as the Admin User drag the dmg file (copy) to the HD/Users/Shared folder and double click on it so it expands. When your app has expanded, drag it to the HD/Applications folder. Click on it and Get Info. What does it list for the 3 names & permissions? system: Read & Write, admin: Read & Write, everyone: Read Only? Does it work now under Admin user, what about when logged in as a Standard User? You should be able to do the following when logged in as a Standard User, but when you try to change anything it will ask for the Admin Name and Password. Is this the only Rev standalone on the Mac. Does the Mac have a copy of the IDE which may only be available for the Admin user to use? Is this definitely a standalone - a Rev stack can be opened without the IDE if another Rev Stack exists on the Mac, so in this case, if the app isn't a standalone but is really only a stack, it will try to start up the IDE, Rev Player or any other Rev standalone that contains the Rev engine, if these are only available to the Admin User then the Stack (not app) will fail to start for a Standard User. With Get Info what does it list under Name & Extension, does it have .rev or no extension at all? Control Click on the app so the contextual menu pops up and select 'Show Package Contents'. A new Finder window should pop up with a single folder called Contents, select it so you can look inside. Remember you can't write to an application, so most of what is in here will have ONLY READ permission, the exceptions are Info.plist file and any other file you've specifically created to counter this situation, ie you've created a stack with splashscreen, have a database or simply write to a seperate file. If your app works for the Admin user, then the particular file (info.plist, rev, db or other) must have the correct write permission for the Admin user so maybe system Read & Write, admin Read & Write, everyone Read. In this case the everyone needs to change to Read & Write, but remember, everyone Read & Write should only be changed on those files that you know the user needs to be able to write to, all other folders and files should have their permissions left as is. It might be handy to look in the HD/Applications/ folder for any other 3rd party (not Apple, ie Firefox or Skype) application that has been installed. Control Click on it to 'Show Package Contents' and check the various permissions of the folders and files inside. You will see that the three names are system, admin and everyone, and typcially ONLY the info.plist file has Read & Write for everyone. Are these 3rd party apps visible to the Standard User and do they work correctly? The next problem might be Preferences. Instead of writing to a .plist file located inside the app bundle (Mac name for the folder that looks like a file), you could write to a preference file located in the Preference Folder, unfortunately there are several of these. Each User has their own, plus there is a System level one, HD/Library/Preferences. If your app writes to HD/Library/Preferences it will work for the Admin user as they have Write permission, but it will not work for standard Users. Preferences should go in each individual HD/Users/<user name>/Library/Preferences folder so that each User will have the app start with their own preferences. Obviously each user can Read and Write to their own Preferences folder. HTH _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
