standalone image problem

[william humphrey]

What if you have each image's directory location named in the "image
source"?

./myImages/imageThatCanChange.png


Does that work?

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

> Edward,
>
> The tricky thing about standalone apps on OS X is that, if you do not set
> the defaultFolder in the stack, the defaultFolder will be the folder where
> the .app bundle resides. If you do set the defaultfolder to be the folder
> where the stack resides, as John has shown in his example, when you create a
> standalone out of the stack, the defaultFolder is *inside* the .app bundle.
> See my note in the dictionary under defaultFolder for more details.
>
> Regards,
>
> Devin
>
> On Nov 6, 2010, at 4:05 AM, John Dixon wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Edward...
> >
> > Will this work for you ?
> >
> > global gtheFolder
> >
> > on preopenstack
> >   set itemDel to "/"
> >   put item 1 to -2 of (the effective fileName of this stack) &
> "/resources" into gtheFolder
> >   set the defaultfolder to gtheFolder
> >
> >   --set the topleft of this stack to 30,30
> >   --set the defaultfolder to "resources/"
> >   set the decorations of this stack to "title,close"
> >   set the topleft of this stack to 0,0
> >   set the height of this stack to 750
> >   set the width of this stack to 1280
> >   set the loc of this stack to 640,400
> >   hide  menubar
> > end preopenstack
> >
> > on openCard
> >   global pname
> >   set the filename of image 1 to "./resources/BKG.paneling.jpg"
> >   set the filename of image 2 to "./resources/deck_animation.gif"
> >   set the currenttime of player 1 to 0
> >   set the filename of player 1 to "./resources/river1"
> >   start player 1
> > end openCard
> >
> > be well
> >
> > Dixie
> >
> >> From: etcawley at fastmail.fm
> >> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 04:21:14 -0500
> >> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> >> Subject: standalone image problem
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm trying to build for both Mac OS X and windows, but I'm concentrating
> on Mac until I get it to work. I have Snow Leopard installed.The folder
> structure is ./Resources/map_animation.gif for a typical file I have
> included the open stack code and the opencard code for one of the cards. I
> also will include(attached) screen capture of the folders location . As I
> said the stack works, ie. clik on the field or button and it will go to the
> next cd, all the text files are read and shown but the images (gif & jpeg),
> audio, and one video clip do not show. Since it is showing the files it
> looks like it is finding the files in the folder but not showing them.
> >>
> >> on preopenstack
> >>   --set the topleft of this stack to 30,30
> >>   set the defaultfolder to "resources/"
> >>   set the decorations of this stack to "title,close"
> >>   set the topleft of this stack to 0,0
> >>   set the height of this stack to 750
> >>   set the width of this stack to 1280
> >>   set the loc of this stack to 640,400
> >>   hide  menubar
> >> end preopenstack
> >>
> >> on openCard
> >>   global pname
> >>   set the filename of image 1 to "resources/BKG.paneling.jpg"
> >>   set the filename of image 2 to "resources/deck_animation.gif"
> >>  set the currenttime of player 1 to 0
> >>  set the filename of player 1 to "resources/river1"
> >>  start player 1
> >> end openCard
> >>
> >>
> >> On Nov 5, 2010, at 11:02 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.comwrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Message: 2
> >>> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 11:36:39 -0600
> >>> From: Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu>
> >>> Subject: Re: image files in standalone
> >>> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> >>> Message-ID: <3B2C6B00-1E04-4FB2-A629-D9A0F3785234 at byu.edu>
> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:07 AM, edward cawley wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hello Edward,
> >>>
> >>> What platform are you building for? What does your folder structure
> look like? Do you set the defaultFolder in order to locate the resource
> folder?
> >>>
> >>> Devin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Devin Asay
> >>> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> >>> Brigham Young University
> >>>
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> Brigham Young University
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