OS X Standalone (mis)behavior

[Thierry Arbellot]

I had similar problem (standalone won't launch and info.plist can't be 
opened) due to a special character in the "copyright notice" field, I 
think it was a &

Hope it helps.

Thierry.

On Wednesday, Aug 11, 2004, at 17:34 Europe/Paris, Devin Asay wrote:

> I have had some bizarre problems running a standalone app created with 
> Rev 2.2 on OS X. The app is created on my G5 running OSX 10.3.4 and 
> then copied up to a file server (an Xserve running OS X Server 10.2). 
> When I try to run it on my lab iMacs (also running 10.3), the launch 
> is unsuccessful. The application icon "zooms" but never appears in the 
> dock. At first I thought perhaps it was a permissions issue, so I 
> changed permissions on the server to give ownership to the generic 
> user that I use to log in to the file server. No luck. However, if I 
> log in to the server from my lab machines using the administrator 
> login, it launches normally.
>
> Now here's where it gets weird:
> I went back to my development station, the G5 and logged in to the 
> file server as the lab user. The app launched and ran normally. But 
> when I logged out and back in to the server as administrator, the app 
> would not launch! In other words, the failure behavior was exactly 
> opposite depending upon whether I logged in from my desktop G5 or one 
> of my lab iMacs.
>
> I was about to chalk this up to some weird permissions/ subnet thing 
> (the labs are in a different subnet than my desktop machine), but then 
> I dropped back to Rev 2.1.2 and re-compiled the standalone, copied it 
> up to the server, and it works the way it's supposed to: Log in to 
> server from anywhere using the lab user login and it works.
>
> This makes me suspect the Standalone Builder in 2.2.1. A couple of 
> other curious clues (though they may be red herrings):
>
> - When I try to examine the Info.plist file in the application bundle 
> created with 2.2.1 I am unable to open it with the Property List 
> Editor. BBedit opens it but complains that 'The UTF-8 file 
> "Info.plist" is damaged or incorrectly formed'. The Info.plist file 
> from the app bundle created with 2.1.2 opens normally. (It's also not 
> UTF-8 encoded. Significant?)
>
> - In the 2.2.1-created app, no version information appears in Get Info 
> or preview, even though I entered in the Standalone Settings before I 
> built. In the 2.1.2-created app, I see version information as expected 
> in Get Info and preview.
>
> Any ideas? Maybe I'm doing something wrong when I am building the 
> standalone under 2.2?
>
> Thanks,
> Devin
>
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
>
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