Building standalones AARRGGH

[Richmond]

On 09/01/2010 10:20 PM, Shari wrote:
> I just spent three hours trying to build a standalone.  I want to make 
> sure I understand what is going on.
>
> It cannot be done in Rev or MC 4.0 at all because of some new internal 
> hoohah Rev put into the engine?  Rev spit out an error without telling 
> me what caused it, just a bunch of mish mash number sets that looked 
> like RGB color codes.  MC said the engine wasn't a valid Metacard engine.
>
> I tried so many things I don't remember exactly but as best I could 
> tell, I couldn't even use MC 4.0 with the 3.5 engine.  I had to launch 
> MC 3.5 and build with the 3.5 engine.
>
> Tired and frustrated and taking a break before I test the build.  I 
> had wanted to use a more recent version so that the build would be 
> loving the newest operating systems.
> I've been doing things in 4.0 but apparently this is the first time 
> I've tried to create a standalone in this version.
>
> Utterly miserable at the moment.
>
>

Umm . . . poor you . . .

Well here are a few fairly daft thoughts, but, you never know:

1.  What is wrong with building a standalone with the 3.5 engine? Unless 
you are doing
      something fancy with the 4.0 graphic capabilities this really 
shouldn't be here or there.

2.  Try and build a MC 4.0 via Jacque Landman Gay's automated setup via 
RunRev 4 and
      (new) RevOnline; and then try building with that: probably a 
better bet than an earlier
      version of MC with a swapped engine from RunRev 4.0.

3.  "new internal hoohah"; I wonder if you might not be using some sort 
of coding that
      was changed between 3.5 and 4?

      Of course it will be another hoohah searching through the 
documentation to find all
      the stuff that has or hasn't been changed between 3.5 and 4.0.

4.  "I had wanted to use a more recent version so that the build would 
be loving the newest operating systems."

      I wouldn't bet on that one. As far as I can tell 3.5 standalones 
should be OK on Windows XP, V and 7,
      Mac 10.3.9 onwards and recent Linux distros.

Love, Richmond.
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