Can't open engine

[Signe Marie Sanne]

At 08:08 25.11.2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Signe Marie Sanne wrote:
>>At 12:45 25.11.2004 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>>>Hello Marie,
>>>
>>>i hope you are fine :-)
>>
>>Hello Claus,
>>nice to get to know you and the other conference participants! I came 
>>back to freezing - 4 degrees C but with the nicest Christmas landscape, 
>>lots of snow. Now we are back to normal, 5 degrees and rain...
>>
>>>Wild guess, but this might be the mistake you made...
>>>
>>>You should do the following:
>>>
>>>Control-klick on "Revolution.app" and select "Show content" in the menu...
>>>Then do the same with your copy of MetaCard!
>>>
>>>Then copy this file:
>>>
>>>(From "Revolution.app") "Contents/MacOS/Revolution" to this location:
>>>
>>>(in the "MetaCard.app") "Contents/MacOS/" and rename THAT file to "MetaCard"
>>>No quotes, of course!
>>>
>>>That should do the trick...
>>
>>No, to no avail. Furthermore it stopped me opening MC completely. If I 
>>doubleclick on mcHome a splashscreen and the home palette with MetaCard 
>>2.5 appears, and the screen freezes. So I have changed the name back to 
>>Revolution so far.
>
>The trick now is to update the executable name in the info.plist file 
>within the bundle.
>
>Perhaps the easiest way to use the latest engine with MC is to start with 
>a copy of the last MC OS X engine and copy only the executable from within 
>the Rev bundle and rename it "MetaCard" within the copy of the MC bundle.
>
>The instructions posted at the top of the MC IDE page will work well if 
>you start with a copy of the MC engine:
>
><http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MC_IDE/>

Hello Richard,
nice meeting you at the ERC.

Since I have just started working on Mac OS X I can't make any sense of the 
instructions which I actually had read. So I need further clarifications 
(of which a part may be useful as additional information for the above 
link). Please correct me if I have misinterpreted anything:

Step 1: Download the Mac OS X version of Revolution (which is placed in a 
folder "Revolution"). Open Revolution and Update. Close.
Step 2: In the folder "Revolution", select the Revolution icon and copy 
(the whole bundle is copied). By the way, the icon shows the name 
"Revolution", which actually is "Revolution.app".
Step 3: Create a new folder "MetaCard" (in which I place the MC IDE as 
well). Paste.
Step 4: Change name of "Revolution" to "MetaCard" ???
Step 5: Controlclick "MetaCard", doubleclick "Contents". Among others there 
is a folder "MacOS" and a Terminal file "Revolution".

So what do I do next, what is the executable mentioned above?

If I just leave things as they are at this point, I'm perfectly able to 
work in the MC IDE, save the stack, port it to Windows etc. But no chance 
of making a standalone for Mac OS X...

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