Way to package files inside Rev app?

[Alex Rice]

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 03:58  PM, RGould8 at aol.com wrote:

> I've got a Revolution app that is a self-contained executible for Mac  
> OS X, plus 2 straggler unix files that it needs to control some  
> network operations.
>
> Since .app files in OS X are really unix folders with hidden files  
> under then, is there a way I can stash the 2 unix files inside the  
> Revolution app and call them with the shell() command in Rev 2.0?

Absolutely, first skim the material about application packaging by  
reading up on it here
   
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/SystemOverview/ 
AppPackaging/

In the Finder, right click or control click and choose Show Package  
Contents. Then just copy stuff into it. Most likely Contents/Resources  
is where you should put your stuff, but it doesn't really matter.

Note that in the standalone, "the defaultFolder" is going to be set to  
the folder containing Your.app. "the filename of this stack" is going  
to be set to the actual binary executable file within the bundle, e.g.  
the defaultFolder & "/Your.app/Contents/MacOS/Revolution"

shell() is relative to the defaultFolder. So I expect  
shell("Your.app/Contents/Resources/yourFile") is what the path will  
look like.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
alrice at swcp.com