You can use relative paths. Unfortunately the IDE doesn't have an interface to set them. You'll have to make your own.
Has that been Bugzilla'd? It sounds like a valuable feature enhancement request.
One way is to make a list of stackfiles in a field. For example, put this into a field named "stacks":
mystack,/subDir/mystack.rev stackTwo,/subDir/stackTwo.rev stackThree,/otherDir/stackThree.rev
Then from the message box:
set the stackfiles of this stack to field "stacks".
Ungainly, but it works.
Note that, as Ken explained, all directories are relative to the current defaultfolder.
There are two conventions at play: for stackFiles paths are relative to the stack that references them, while external media paths are relative to the defaultFolder.
While the default folder is initialized to be the same as the location of the executable on all systems (except OS X, see next paragraph), the defaultFolder can be changed while the starting point for referencing stackFiles cannot.
These differences are compounded by yet-another-Apple-anomaly: with OS X bundles the defaultFolder is initialized to the folder the *.app bundle is in, while stackFiles are relative to the executable within the bundle.
So for OS X, unless you move your external stacks inside the bundle (altering the path from what it had been in development, altering the user experience across platforms, and thereby requiring forked documentation for your product) you'll need to prepend your stackFiles to accomodate Apple's break from convention:
on startUp
ResetStackFiles
end startUp on ResetStackFiles
get fld "MyStackFiles"
if isOSX() then
repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines of it
put "../../" before item 2 of line i of it
end repeat
set the stackFiles of this stack to it
end ResetStackFiles function isOSX
set the itemDel to "."
return (item 1 of the systemVersion >=10)
end isOSXGiven these factors, is having these two conventions more useful than confusing?
Should we consider changing the stackFiles relative starting point in OS X to match that of all other platforms, and/or having both stackFiles and media references use the same logic?
And other than moving all of your work into the Revolution application folder, what else can be done to simplify differences between the initial value of defaultFolder during development and its intial value in a standalone?
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