AW: Mac Newbee question to Mac paths

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Ken,
thank you for claryfying, that helps!
Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Ken Ray
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. April 2008 00:18
> An: How to use Revolution
> Betreff: Re: Mac Newbee question to Mac paths
> 
> 
> > A typical Mac path would look like this:
> > /Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/Mainstack
> >
> > Shouldn't it be: Hard
> Disc/Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/Mainstack
> 
> No, not if the Mac has only a single volume (i.e. hard drive). And when
> there are multiple drives, the path is:
> 
> /Volumes/<driveName>/... /... /...  (etc.)
> 
> > Can you put your App on a Mac only in: /Applications/ or could you build
> any
> > folder structure as on windows to put your app also into:
> > /Applications/foo/foo/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/Mainstack?
> 
> You can put it anywhere you like, Macs don't care about where apps are
> launched from (although putting it in Applications or Utilities
> (/Applications/Utilities) is the norm.
> 
> > The documentation tells me about the defaultfolder:  "this is the folder
> > containing that standalone. On OS X systems, the defaultFolder is set to
> the
> > folder that contains the application bundle"
> >
> > The first part would tell me that the defaultfolder is:
> > /Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/
> >
> > The second part would tell me that the defaultfolder is: /Applications/
> >
> > Or is the difference just, how it looks like physical (first part) and
> what
> > the user sees of it (second part)?
> 
> No, it's actually a question of a "bug fix" that took place a while ago.
> You
> see the "engine" in an application is embedded on a Mac inside the
> application bundle, and the rule was to start with the defaultFolder
> pointing to the location of the standalone. On Windows, this was where the
> .exe file was, but on Mac it was embedded three layers down in the bundle.
> 
> However this was confusing and required parsing of the defaultFolder to
> point to the proper place, so in later versions of Rev, the defaultFolder
> pointed to the folder that contained the application bundle (i.e. what the
> user sees as the "application").
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> 
> 
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