standalone don't find images

[Signe Marie Sanne]

Ken Ray skrev:

> On 10/25/05 3:53 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Reinhold Venzl-Schubert wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>The standalone, that I built, don't find the images in the folder  "Media"
>>>
>>>In the stackscript I set the directory with
>>>
>>>on preopenstack
>>>  get the effective filename of this stack
>>>  set the itemdel to "/"
>>>  delete last item of it
>>>  set the directory to it
>>>end preopenstack
>>>
>>>every image was imported with "Link Only" and "Set Directory" and has
>>>the Filename "Media/Imagename.jpg"
>>>
>>>and the Media-Folder is at the right place, in the same folder as the
>>>standalone.
>>>
>>>What is wrong?
>>
>>On OS X, the filename of the main stack in a standalone is the file
>>inside the app bundle. You should put your media folder inside the
>>bundle, at: standalone.app/Contents/MacOS/
> 
> 
> Or, don't bother setting the directory at all - in the standalone, the
> directory is automatically set to the location of the currently running
> executable (or OS X bundle) so it automatically is pointing in the right
> place.
> 
> (NOTE: It didn't used to be this way on OS X - 'the directory' would be the
> folder where the *engine* was  (in Contents/MacOS/) but that changed in
> 2.5.1 (I believe).)

(Using MetaCard IDE on latest version of the engine.)
For an application I used to have the media folder in the same folder as the 
standalone. On Mac 10.3.9 I had trouble finding its path. This script gave 
me the correct path:

  set itemDel to "/"
   put item 1 to -2 of (the effective filename of this stack) into hvormappe

   if the platform = "macos" then
     set itemdel to "."
     if item 1 of the systemversion > 9 then
       set itemDel to "/"
       if the environment <> "development" then put item 1 to -4 of 
hvormappe into hvormappe
     end if
   end if

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