Relative Paths

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Wed Apr 7 23:53:58 EDT 2004


> > Very close. I think you are off track with the externals property 
> > though. We
> > don't mess with your externals property settings. It's the rev 
> > externals
> > that are placed in the one externals folder (revXML, revDB etc). Your 
> > own
> > externals can be copied over by referencing them in the copy files 
> > screen.
> > This also uses relative paths so if you have a well structured 
> > development
> > folder you should have no problems.
> 
> The simple way to use externals is to statically place them next to the 
> executable.  Let's see if I understand the implications under this 
> scheme.  That means they have to be two places, one is next to the 
> Revolution application.  The other is in the project folder.  In the 
> project folder they have to be next to the splash stack or main stack, 
> so they will be next to the app in Windows.  The externals property is 
> not modified, you explained.  The relative location would then be next 
> to the internal executable in the OS X bundle.  Does that work?  

Yes... have a go ;-)

Cheers

Monte





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