Standalone application problem

[J. Landman Gay]

Andrew Lian -nswc wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> Please forgive yet another newbie question.
> 
> I have stack which plays a sound file played through a playerobject. Its 
> path is identified in the player's "Source" property. Let's say it is 
> C:/sounds/apl.wav.
> 
> The file plays perfectly well in the development environment and on my 
> computer.
> 
> I now make a standalone application - and it is produced ok. However, my 
> sound file can no longer be heard. Either it has not been automatically 
> packaged into the application or there is a path problem.
> 
> I have tried to include the relevant file in the package by using the 
> "Copy Files" setting of the "Standalone application settings" but that 
> seems to make no difference. Is there some legible documentation 
> somewhere of how to prepare the files so that the whole package gets 
> produced correctly with the correct paths? DO I have to respect the 
> original paths and recreate them on any computer which tries to run the 
> standalone?

This is almost certainly a file path problem. If you are refering to the 
sound file by a long file path name, it will not be the same on anyone 
else's machine. And if you build a standalone with the file added to the 
standalone folder, then its file path will also have changed.

You can solve the problem in a couple of ways. The easiest way is to 
calculate the correct file path with a script. Something like this 
should work:

put the effective filename of this stack into tPath
set the itemdelimiter to slash
put "mySoundFolder/mySoundFile.aif" into last item of tPath

This will produce a file path to a file named "mySoundFile.aif" inside a 
folder called "mySoundFolder" which is next to the standalone. On 
Windows, that would be a folder in the same parent folder as your 
standalone. On OS X, it would be a folder inside the Mac OS folder which 
is inside the application bundle.

Note that inside the IDE, it won't work until you move a copy of the 
sound file folder into the same parent folder as your stack.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com