Standalone problem

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Jacque.


Klaus had said that there is a bug in the standalone builder, that non-LC externals are not loaded into the package. He is right. But, I wrote this to Klaus in the forum:



Klaus.
You are right, the bundle is not included in the package contents. However:

1- Neither is it included in the package contents on my developing Mac. Putting it there, or removing it does not change the fact that the standalone works on that machine. So the reference to that bundle, or the bundle itself, is embedded somehow in the package, and not simply based on the presence of that file in the right place.

2- Including it in the externals folder in the standalone on the daughter machine does not make that app work there.

3- Building the standalone from the IDE ON THE DAUGHTER MACHINE, all works fine, and the external is still not loaded in the externals folder of the package contents.

Klaus, for a second there I thought you had nailed it. I cannot use standalones at all, since if anything goes wrong, I cannot just load another copy to the machine with the problem. Either I have to use the IDE everywhere, or would have to rebuild the standalone from LC resident on that machine.

Thanks for your time. Though I have learned something about the package that the standalone builder creates, I am still at a loss.

Jacque. If I do not include a full pathname to the external in the stack inspector, neither the IDE stack nor the standalone will work.The external is not seen unless I go through the process form the "external references" pane, navigating to the external.