Building Standalones with Panther/Tiger

[Devin Asay]

On Sep 22, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Peter Reid wrote:

>> I haven't observed that problem here. I routinely build apps on  
>> Tiger and deploy on Panther. Could you give us more details about  
>> the app you're trying to build?
>>
>> Devin
>>
>
> I'm building an app that uses AppleScript to control an FM Pro  
> database on the same machine.  I'm not using any external or  
> special resources of any kind.

The first thing I would suspect is differences in AppleScript between  
Panther and Tiger. Can you compile and run standalones on the  
different OS versions if the AppleScript parts are commented out?
>
> When I double-click on a Panther-built copy on a Tiger machine the  
> dock twitches briefly as if it's about to show the program icon and  
> then nothing.  If I build the standalone on the Tiger system and  
> double-click again it opens normally!
>
> I get exactly the same effect the other way round on a Panther  
> system, i.e. trying to run a Tiger-built copy.
>
> Both the Tiger and Panther app packages contain:
>    Contents
>       Info.plist
>       MacOS
>          AssessmentCapture
>       PkgInfo
>       PlugIns
>          coreimage_support.bundle
>       Resources
>          Revolution.icns
>          RevolutionDoc.icns
>
> and the file sizes are identical.
>
> If I run my Rev stack from within Rev itself, it works identically,  
> without any problems, on both Tiger and Panther.  It's only as a  
> standalone that I get this behaviour?!
>
> Peter
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> Peter Reid
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Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University