File name of stack weirdness

[Klaus Major]

Hi Chris,

> Hello all -
>
> don't want to distract anyone from the serious business of playing  
> with translucent windows, (well done Runtime on 2.6) but could  
> anyone shed any light on this???:
>
> If I do:  "get the filename of this stack" on my G5(Tiger) it  
> returns "/Volumes/Starfish Internal 250/Scripter/filename test/ 
> filename test.app/Contents/MacOS/filename test"  i.e. the full path.
>
> If I run it on G3 laptop(Panther) it returns "/filename test.app/ 
> Contents/MacOS/filename test"
> (whereas to be consistent, it should have returned /Volumes/ 
> Powerbook HD/filename test.app/Contents/MacOS/filename test")
>
> This is a big problem for me as I need to pass the path information  
> to a text file to be read by another (SC) application.
>
> Can anyone offer any advice? Is it a bug?  Is there a workaround?

Must be a bug, i just tested and it looks like Rev does not differ
between "the filename of this stack" and "the effective filename of  
this stack"
in an OS X standalone :-/

Both return the engine name inside the application bundle in as  
standalone on OS X.

> All the best,
>
> Chris

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de