Hi Jacque,
Unfortunately, you are partly wrong (but fortunately you may also be
partly right). If you create a standalone with a password-protected
stack in 2.4 format, Revolution will convert it to 2.7 format. This
means that a password-protected standalone created with Rev 4 will
never run on Mac OS 9.
To answer OP's question, I was unable to get any standalone created in
Mac OS X with Rev 2.7* or later working in Mac OS 9. There may be
several reasons for this. I might be using commands and functions that
are unavalable in the 2.6 engine, or my hard disk is formatted such
that the file system can't deal with classic resource forks, or the
new standalone builder forgets to add (parts of) the resource fork.
Whenever I have to create a standalone for Mac OS 9, I fire up my old
PowerMac, edit the stack in Rev 2.6.1, and build the standalone inside
the environment it is supposed to run in.
*) I write 2.7 for my own convenience. The OS9 option isn't always
available.
--
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
http://economy-x-talk.com
Submit your software at http://www.quickestpublisher.com
On 24 sep 2009, at 03:22, J. Landman Gay wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
All:
The 3.5 docs do say that the 2.6.1 classic engine is used to make
the standalone, and that one should watch out for included v.3-4
functionality that might break in that earlier version; that the
newer code may not compile in the 2.6 engine. Makes sense.
Otherwise, except for that caveat, it seems like OS 9 is supported
in v.3.5; it does after all create a fat standalone.
The file format changed in Rev 2.7. If you want to build an OS 9
standalone using Rev 3.5, you need to save the stack in legacy
format (there's an option in the Save dialog for that.) If you
don't, the 2.6.1 engine can't read the 2.7 file format, which I
think is why your original standalone wouldn't launch.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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