Novice developer: problem with Buidl Distribution...

[Rob Cozens]

>The only files in the directory Standalone_MacOSX_testje are the 
>subdir Data (which is empty because I had only one stack), and the 
>mainstackfile klik.rev
>I do not understand what went wrong, and I can't find a clue in the 
>documentation. Can somebody please help me with this problem, 
>because I would like to explore te prossibilities of Revolution, but 
>without runnen programes that's not possible..

Hi Annemieke,

Hold down <control>, click on the standalone,  select "Show Package 
Contents", and open the nested folders you find there...all will be 
revealed.  Note: there are path name issues here when locating files 
and folders in your standalone on OS X vs another platform.

Here's how I work around this [posted 25 Aug]:

>>
All my distributions involving SDB  expect a PlugIns folder for 
libraries & a Data folder for databases.

The library & db stacks are NEVER made known to the Distribution 
Builder, and "Create folder for substacks" is NOT selected.  When the 
standalone is created, I place it in a pre-configured distribution 
folder with PlugIns & Data folders containing the proper stacks & 
files.
<<

BTW, one CAN explore without building a standalone: create your 
stack, select "Suspend Development Tools" from from the Development 
menu, and your stack will behave virtually identically to the 
standalone.  If you encounter an error, you can turn on the Dev 
environment, change your handlers and/or add new controls, turn the 
Dev environment off, and continue testing.  [Except when using 
locally-declared variables...which always get reset when a handler 
referencing them is modified.*]

Bottom line, unlike C, FORTRAN, & other traditional approaches to app 
building, one does NOT have to compile one's code before testing it.

* Kevin, et al: I hope fixing this is getting somewhere up your ToDo 
List, as it continues to be a major slowdown when I'm testing to have 
to purge everything and run the app back to the the state it was in 
when I opened the editor.

-- 
Rob Cozens, CCW
Serendipity Software Company
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