Successful Macintel standalone build in MC

[Shari]

>Right, the standalone builder requires that the engine file is named 
>"MetaCard". The problem is probably with the plist file inside the 
>bundle. Open that in a text editor and replace all instances of 
>"MetaCardCarbonMach-0" with plain "MetaCard". Then rename the engine 
>inside Contents/Mac OS to "MetaCard". That should fix both launching 
>and standalone building.

I think it's soup!

I have created a Macintel build of the complicated happy stack using 
Metacard 2.7.  It launches.  It appears to be working.

You were right about the pList file.  I had looked at it, but the 
CarbonMach-0 part hadn't jumped out at me.

I did however, change everything in the final build to Gold instead 
of Metacard.  I know I have been doing that as long as I've been 
using Metacard.  I no longer remember why.

It could be that somewhere a window came up with Metacard that should 
have said Blackjack Gold.  Or perhaps I had the notion that if I 
created many different apps, each should have its own identity so 
that they would not cause confusion or overwrite each other in some 
way.

But, the real goodie is, I think it's soup!

I did not alter the built in ask/answer/message box stacks in any 
way.  All of the stacks that were originally built in, stayed that 
way, including Execution Error and libUrl.  Wanted to at least try to 
do it the easy way before dissecting the whole project :-D    Let's 
call it... testing backwards compatibility :-D

libUrl still works.  Ask still works.  Answer still works.  Cannot 
test Execution Error specifically.  That will only come into it if a 
bug got past me :-)

There were only three things I found offhand that needed to be dealt 
with.  Changing the About screen to say Made with Revolution instead 
of Metacard.  Pointing the Preferences menu item that seemed to 
appear out of nowhere to the proper place.  And finding out why the 
Uninstaller doesn't delete the desktop alias as it did before.  Don't 
know if this is Macintel related or if it is related to the new 
engine and my existing code.

But the main thing is, it's soup!  Thank YOU yet again, Jacque.  You 
need a whole wall for Dreamboat awards :-)

Shari
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