revZip and rev 2.8 gm-3

[J. Landman Gay]

Chris Sheffield wrote:
> I'm having a problem that I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced. 
> This is OS X, btw.
> 
> I have an application that makes use of the revZip library. I have the 
> standalone builder settings set to search for required inclusions. The 
> first problem is that the revZip bundle does not get copied to my 
> standalone, which I believe is a long outstanding bug, which I thought 
> was supposed to have been fixed with 2.8. The second problem is that, 
> even if I manually copy the revZip.bundle into my standalone package, 
> the standalone errors when making a call to a revZip function. In other 
> words, it's not finding the bundle. I have it copied to the Externals 
> folder within the app bundle. I have also tried explicitly setting the 
> externals of my stack, but I can't seem to get the path quite right to 
> this Externals folder. The only way I've been able to get it to work 
> without errors is to simply set the externals to "revzip.bundle" and 
> then place the bundle directly next to my app bundle, not inside it. But 
> I would really like to have this app be as self-contained as possible, 
> so I'd prefer to have the revzip.bundle inside my app bundle.
> 
> First of all, has anyone else experienced these problems with the 
> standalone builder Rev 2.8? I think I'm about ready to report them to 
> runtime. And second, what should I set the path to in the externals 
> property so that I can keep the revzip.bundle inside my app bundle? I 
> think I'm just not getting it quite right. I'd prefer to use a relative 
> path if possible. Should it be something like 
> "./[AppBundleName]/Contents/MacOS/Externals/revzip.bundle"? Can anyone 
> help?

I always set externals dynamically on startup. This has always worked 
for me:

on startup
  if the platform = "macos" then
   set the externals of this stack to \
     pathToBundleData() & "myExternal.bundle"
  else
   set the externals of this stack to \
     pathToBundleData() & "myExternal.dll"
  end if
end startup

function pathToBundleData
   put the effective filename of this stack into tPath
   set the itemDel to slash
   delete last item of tPath
   return tPath & "/Externals/"
end pathToBundleData

This sets the externals property to the Externals folder regardless of 
whether it is inside a Mac bundle or in a folder next to the app in a 
Windows standalone.

Note that the startup message is the only time you can dynamically set 
externals. I've had varying success with hard-coding the paths into the 
stack, which is why I started doing it this way.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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