use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1475 - 17 msgs

[Edward Cawley]

On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 11:18  PM, 
use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
  Thanks, the effective path worked like a charm.
But that leads to a new problem,
I have a stack which uses a number of images and text files which I am 
referencing by absolute path names. It works fine in the development 
stack but when I tried to build a standalone everything broke down. In 
trying to debug it I moved the stack and the associated files into a 
new folder, changed the references, using the effective path script, 
and tried to run it again. The images work OK but the text files don't 
get read. I get a message that it can't verify the path if I run it on 
OSX, and a message that it can't open the file if I try to run it on 
OS8.6. I tried changing the defaultfolder but it doesn't seem to make 
any difference. The filetype seems like it may have a role, but it 
seems to affect new files created by the app. Do I need to change 
existing files. Most are simple text or textedit files. The 
documentation doesn't seem to deal with this specific problem. Also 
where is the place to put this files in the standalone pkg? I thought I 
had developed an understanding of Rev. coming from years of hypercard, 
but now I'm not so sure.
Thanks for any help.
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> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:51:31 -1000
> Subject: Re: filepaths for multiple builds
> From: Sannyasin Sivakatirswami <katir at hindu.org>
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
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> On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 03:26  PM, Edward Cawley wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>> I'm trying to build standalones for mac and windows and I have a
>> problem.
>> I am developing in MacOSX.
>> I have a large number of images which I access by filepaths. I don't
>> need to specify the hard drive in MacOSX just the file name on the
>> hard drive (/river?).but when I access them in OS8&9 I need to
>> indicate the hard drive name (ie /Macinosh/.......as well. I'm not
>> sure what I need to do for Windows? I can see that I could use an if
>> then to change the filepaths to fit the operating systems. But how can
>> I find out the operating systems for the scripts?
>>
>
> Ed, are the images are being distributed with your stack? and do you
> have control over their location on the CD or in the distribution
> directory? i.e if your directory structure can look something this.
>
> Folder: Fantastic Image Archive/
>              file: TheGreatestPix.rev
> 		 sub-folder:  images/	
> 						files: lots of images
> 				
>
> the you have a ready made solution in this syntax
>
> "put the effective filename of this stack into gPath_Where_I_Live"
>
> and get the path for the sub directories by parsing that string. Can
> give you the full script if you need it.
>
> then the issue of determining platform-OS disappears.
>
> hth
>
>> A second question is an odd behavior I see when I change the image by
>> changing the source filename. Sometimes there is a blank area which
>> isn't drawn, not the whole image but just the bottom 10%. If I go to
>> another card and return the image is complete. It isn't a empty field
>> or any other object. No big deal, but it is a puzzle. Any ideas?
>> Thanks
>> Ed
>>
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