image display

[Ken Ray]

Rick,

The problem is that on OS X, the "filename of this stack" when run from a
standalone points to the engine file (which is in the application bundle
folder in Contents/MacOS. So if your stack was named "MyApp.mc" and you made
a standalone, the app would look like "MyApp.app", but *inside* that bundle
is the actual engine file at MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MetaCard (or something
like that).

So you'll need to adjust your path accordingly. There's a tip about it here:

http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm?_file008

HTH,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:metacard-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Rick Rice
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 7:38 PM
> To: metacard list
> Subject: image display
> 
> 
> I'm using metacard 2.4.3, Mac OS X
> I use the following script to display an image;
> 
> on showtheimage
>    global questioncard, answer, question
>    set itemdel to "/"
>    put item 1 of questioncard into question
>    put item 2 of questioncard into answer
>    put the filename of this stack into stackpath
>    put "simple/"&question into the last item of stackpath
>    set the filename of image 1 of cd "displayimage" to stackpath
>    go card "displayimage"
> end showtheimage
> 
> All is fine until I create a standalone file. The image is not 
> displayed.
> As well, even though I have the finder preferences set to display the 
> extensions, the ".app" extension does not appear in the file 
> name. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rick
> 
> Plan!  I'd rather be surprised.
> 
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