Standalones won't launch

[Peter T. Evensen]

Do you have any quits in your application?  Could you be encountering some 
error on preOpenStack that is causing you to exit?

So the icon just bounces in the dock on OS X and then disappears?

It would be hard to say without knowing more about your stack.

Could you be using something that you didn't include in the 
standalone?  Are you using profiles?
Is "Search for required inclusion when saving the standalone application" 
selected? or is "Select inclusions for the standalone application" selected?

Do you use external stack files (i.e., stacks that aren't substacks, but 
are in separate files from the stack you are building into a 
standalone)?  If so, and you have the "search for required..." option 
checked, it might not be finding a required inclusion.  You can add 
external stacks to the standalone in the Stacks pane.  I belive that will 
include them in the search for required inclusions.

Do you use any external files that your application is looking for and will 
quit if it doesn't find them?  You can add them to the CopyFiles pane (or 
copy them manually).

The defaultfolder is the folder containing the runtime.  Are you expecting 
that?  In the development environment, the defaultfolder is Revolution 
folder, by default.

At 10:15 AM 2/20/2006, you wrote:
>I recently purchased an update to Studio so that I could make my
>applications into standalones.  I have three apps, one for solving
>Sudoku puzzles, one for translating English sentences into Latin and
>one for drilling the 14 tenses of Italian verbs.  All three of these
>apps work perfectly in the development mode, created under Revolution
>Dreamcard 2.6.  My standalone apps are supposedly created for PC and
>Mac OSX and I can find the files. When I click on their ICons to
>launch them on my Imac, the names of the apps flash for a fraction of
>a second in the Menu bar and then disappear leaving me looking at the
>finder window.  They don't stay launched.  I then experimented by
>making a silly simple application that had one button and one field.
>The button was scripted to beep however many times were entered into
>the field.  It worked both in development and when converted to a
>standalone it launched, stayed open and worked perfectly.  So what am
>I doing wrong when making my serious apps into standalones?  Please
>help me so that I did not spend $200.00 for a useless upgrade.  Thanks,
>
>Dave Mendriski
>djdrisk at earthlink.net
>

Peter T. Evensen
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