OS X Standalone (mis)behavior

[Devin Asay]

Well, as I was doing some testing to try to come up with a recipe for 
this, my experiments started pointing to a cause outside of Rev. There 
may be something going on within OS X that somehow "remembers" the 
creator type for a previous version and when a new version with the 
same name but different creator type tries to launch the OS gets 
confused and refuses to launch it.

This is what I did that makes me suspect the OS:
I copied the 2.2 compiled version to my file server, but to a different 
directory than the one that is refusing to launch. I launch my app, it 
works perfectly. Then I copy the application to the original directory 
on the server (remember it has the same name as the previous, rev 
2.1-compiled version, which launched normallly, but in 2.2 I left the 
creator name as ???? and in the 2.1 version I used RApp.) The copy now 
WILL NOT LAUNCH. If I go back to the other directory, the application 
launches fine. This makes me suspect that OS X is retaining some kind 
of information about the path name to the application and its creator 
type and if something doesn't match up to what it expects, the launch 
is aborted.

I'll continue to watch and play with it, but for now it doesn't appear 
to be a Rev problem.

Devin

On Aug 12, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Devin Asay wrote:

> Monte,
>
> Now I've heard others have had it, I'll try to come up with a recipe 
> and then bugzilla it.
>
> Devin
>
> On Aug 11, 2004, at 5:10 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
>
>>
>>>> Any ideas? Maybe I'm doing something wrong when I am building the
>>>> standalone under 2.2?
>>>
>>> I've seen the zooming-without-launching effect too. I have no idea if
>>> this has been identified and logged with bugzilla though.
>>
>> No it hasn't. There are only two bugs on the standalone builder and 
>> both are
>> PENDING. Without wishing to sound rude, it's a little frustrating to 
>> see
>> "I've seen that too" posts when a bug is discussed on the list and 
>> still
>> nothing in bugzilla. Please post to bugzilla so we can keep a record 
>> of the
>> issue. I'm not sure I have enough info to fix this yet though...
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>>   Monte Goulding - monte at sweattechnologies.com
>>   Sweat Technologies

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University