standalone builder

[edward cawley]

 Solved most of my problems. My problem was the file path, Loaded my files into the the folder (Misipp files) in the standalone and loaded QuickTime into my copy of WindowsXP on VM Fusion. Only two problems left.

I need to enlarge the font in the menubar in the Window stack?

As long as I am running the stack from my drive everything is working but if I move the App into the C: drive in Windows it can't find the files. I'm using relative paths and Windows can't fine them. How can I refer to the relative paths in both Mac and Windows?

I'm planing on distributing the App to students to use on their own laptops and I don't want to have them run the App from individual CDs.
 

On Feb 25, 2011, at 10:29 AM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
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> Message: 24
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:49:31 -0600
> From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: standalones and external files
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> On 2/24/11 8:55 PM, edward cawley wrote:
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>> Yes I am using external paths and I figured out that the standalone
>> included a folder in the bundle but did not transfer the files into
>> the folder. I changed the name of the folder from "resources" to
>> "MisippFiles" and copied the files into the folder in the bundle of
>> the standalone. It works fine now.
> 
> Glad you got it figured out. But the standalone builder should have 
> copied all the files by itself. I just tested that and it seems to work 
> here. It copies the folder exactly, with the same name, and all the 
> contents.
> 
> The "Resources" name is reserved in iOS and shouldn't be used for those 
> builds, but it should work okay in desktop standalones. It's a good idea 
> to avoid that name anyway just for clarity, since the standalone already 
> has a Resources folder in a different directory. But technically there 
> should not have been a conflict.
> 
> Copying the files manually works too, I just wonder why you had to.
> 
>> I am testing the windows app in VM Fusion, it is working fine with
>> the exception that the movie in a player does not run in windows. Do
>> I have to install the quick time player into VM Fusion or use the
>> windows media player?
> 
> It depends on what version of LiveCode you're using. You should be able 
> to run compatible videos with WMP, but if your movies are QT-specific 
> movies then you'd need to install QT. In older versions of LiveCode 
> (when it was Rev) QT was always required in Windows. I can't remember 
> the exact version where the change was made but it wasn't too many 
> versions ago.
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