standalone naming

[Thomas J McGrath III]

Thanks again Sarah,

Ok, this is good. But how do you reference the app name versus the  
stack name? And why would you? THis will help me understand a great  
deal.

If I refer to an image in a subfolder at the same level as the app then  
in OSX how are the images referenced from with in the bundle? It seems  
I might get in trouble then renaming the OSX bundle.

referencing things is a bit complicated.

I might just stick to renaming the OS9 version so it is distinguishable  
from the OSX version and leave the OSX version alone. I finally got the  
windows autorun.inf version running and want to get this done right.

Thanks again

Tom


On Jan 8, 2004, at 9:50 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> 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.
>>
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>> Rev 2.1.2
>>
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