standalone naming

[Sarah Reichelt]

Hi Tom,

You need to distinguish between the name of the stack, the name of the  
stack FILE and the name of the standalone app.

Consider a structure like this:
file "MyStackFile.rev"
	containing stacks:	"MyStack" & "SubStack"
Your scripts probably refer to stack "MyStack" and stack "SubStack".
If you are using relative file paths, you may be using:
	the fileName of stack "MyStack"
which probably gives you something like:
	/Users/tom/Documents/RevStacks/MyStackFile.rev

When you build your application, you can call it whatever you like,  
e.g. MyApp
It still contains the 2 stacks and any scripts referring to them will  
still know where to go. You can change the app's name without any  
problem, unless you have specifically referred to the application's  
name in any of the scripts.

With OS X, getting the fileName of the stack is then a bit different as  
the stack is buried inside the bundle folder. Once built,
	the fileName of stack "MyStack"
will give something like this:
/Users/tom/Desktop/MyApp_MacOSX_Standalone/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/ 
Revolution

You may need to take this into account when constructing relative  
paths, but you can certainly change the name of the application and the  
.rev file whenever you want. The actual stack names are the only ones  
you need to be careful about renaming.

Cheers,
Sarah
sarahr at genesearch.com.au
http://www.troz.net/Rev/

On 9 Jan 2004, at 11:16 am, Thomas J McGrath III wrote:

> Does anyone know if once you build a standalone application if  
> changing the name afterwards will effect the internal scripts that  
> check the stack name?
>
> I do -
> if the short name of this stack is "stackname" then
> yada-yada do this and that
> end if
>
> after I build I then changed the name of the stack to "stackname OS9"  
> so as to distinguish it between the OSx version on the same CD.
>
> Macintosh PowerBook G-4 OSX 10.3.1, OS 9.2.2, 1.25 GHz, 512MB RAM, Rev  
> 2.1.2
>
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