Standalone Problems for OSX and OS9 apps

[Sarah Reichelt]

> 1. App is created in 2.5, using no externals, etc, all Transcript. 
> Simple loading in of text files, parsing data to send to a second 
> stack window for printing. There are grey cutting guide lines on the 
> printing window (this is for simple CD labeling) and also table 
> boundary lines which show up properly on screen and print just fine on 
> a Laserwriter printer. Everything works in the IDE. OS 10.3.4. I'm 
> using tab-delimited text inserted into table fields from files loaded 
> with open and read.
>
> 2. OSX standalone works great, except that all the greyed lines don't 
> appear in the printed output but yet are there in the template stack. 
> Huh?
I don't have any great ideas about this one. Do you create a new stack 
based on a template stack? If so, it will be it's own mainStack and not 
inherit any properties from the original's mainStack. Could this be the 
problem?
>
> 3. The OS 9 stanalone is worse - the grey lines show up in print, but 
> no text gets loaded into the table field for editing. Another button 
> that loads text from the clipboard works, but loading from a file 
> doesn't - only on the OS9 standalone.
This is almost certainly a file path problem as OS 9 operates 
differently to OS X. Does the app locate the text files itself or do 
you use answer file to find them? if it is locating them itself, then I 
would expect that the file path is incorrect. Build an OS 9 app that 
uses the answer file command and you will be able to see exactly what 
the file path should be.

Cheers,
Sarah