filename property

[Karl Becker]

Actually, a funny thing happens with getting the filename of a stack 
that is a standalone on Mac OS X with 2.4.3.

Since the application is built as a bundle on OS X, and the actual 
stack is located in a physically different location (not at the place 
in the hard drive heirarchy that it appears to be, but actually down 
a few levels... right click on your built application and select 
"Show Package Contents" to see what I mean), this means that the 
fileName of the stack will return something very different from what 
you'd expect.

fileName as a stack only:
/Macintosh HD/Applications/MetaCard/My Stack.mc

fileName in a standalone:
/Macintosh HD/Applications/MetaCard/My Stack.app/Contents/MacOS/My Standalone

Something to take into account if you're finding file names in 
relation to the fileName of the stack... however, using the directory 
that MetaCard defaults to will give you to the directory that 
contains "My Stack.mc" and "My Stack.app"

Hopefully that's somewhat clear, though I don't know if that 
addresses your problem or not.

I can still get the fileName on my OS X version...


>Has there been a change in the filename property in 2.4.3?
>
>When I use
>     put the filename of this stack into imagelocation
>the variable imaglocation is blank. It used to come back with the full
>path for the stack.
>
>     Thanks
>     Rick
>
>
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