Hi Robert
Are you trying to do this on a Mac running OS X? If so the problem
could be to do with the way OS X application packages work - an
application package is really a folder. If you get the current folder
relative to the stack within the development environment and then try
the same when running as a standalone, you'll find a significant
difference!
For example, I have a small stack called SoundTest.rev that looks for
a folder called Sounds at the same level in the filing system, i.e.
in the same parent folder:
Sounds
SoundTest.rev
In the development environment I can locate the content of the Sounds
folder as follows:
put the filename of this stack into gSoundPath
set itemDelimiter to "/"
put "Sounds/" into the last item of gSoundsPath
My global variable gSoundsPath now has the path to the contents of my
Sounds folder.
However, if this were saved as a standalone application, then I'd
find the following folder structure:
Sounds (my original folder)
SoundTest.app (my standalone program, which is an OS X 'package')
Contents
MacOS
SoundTest (the real standalone program!)
When I get the 'filename' of SoundTest this time, I get the path down
to SoundTest inside the MacOS folder (which is inside the Contents
folder, which is inside the SountTest.app package/folder).
The solution is to change the script above to cater for running in
both the development environment and as a standalone application as
follows:
put the filename of this stack into gSoundPath
set itemDelimiter to "/"
if the environment is "development" then
put "Sounds/" into the last item of gSoundsPath
else
put "Sounds/" into item -4 to -1 of gSoundsPath
end if
Now my global variable gSoundsPath has the path to the contents of my
Sounds folder irrespective of wether my stack is running in the
development environment or as a standalone application!
I hope the above helps.
Cheers
Peter
I can not develop a standalone on one computer that will play a QT movie
(Movie trial.mov) on another computer. I have determined the absolute file
path to the player (with QT file) using
put the defaultFolder & "/" & "Movie trial.mov" into movieName
set the fileName of player "Play" to movieName
The file path is correct on any computer, but the movie won't play. It plays
just fine using the stack file, but not with the corresponding standalone.
The "Movie trial.mov" is included in the standalone package/folder with the
application.
--
Robert E. Ball, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Emeritus
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California
--
Peter Reid
Reid-IT Limited, Loughborough, Leics., UK
Tel: +44 (0)1509 268843 Fax: +44 (0)8700 527576
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.reidit.co.uk
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