I put the programs win_splash.exe, mac_splash.prog and the data-folder with the datastack data.rev into the same folder on a server, which can be reached from the mac- and windows-user, so both, mac- and windows-users can use the data in the datastack.
But now in OSX the distribution-builder makes only application-packages, so my fine method doesnt work on OSX. Do you know of another simple solution to use the same datastack form Win, OS9 and OSX?
There is a disparity in the engine which could be either a feature or a bug depending on one's perspective.
When you set the stackfiles property of your app's maintstack, it will be relative to the application file itself. This means that in OS X is will start in appName.app/Contents/MacOS/
But the default folder is initialized to begin at the folder in which your .app bundle resides, which is the same place the stackfiles will be looked up on all other platforms.
Here, I've been countering this by adding a routine at startup that checks if running in OS X, and then alters the paths in the stackfiles accordingly.
Others may prefer to move their component stacks into the OS X bundle, but I prefer to have my distributions appear the same to all users across platforms, and do not hide other stack files in the OS X bundle.
Whether this special handling of OS X paths with regard to the engine's location in the bundle directory structure is a feature is a matter of opinion. But there are ways to work with it no matter how you prefer to handle it, so it needn't be a show-stopper.
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