External files in Standalones

[William Prothero]

Folks:
I am really confused about how LC's built-in standalone builder is set up to put user files where I want them. I’m building for MacOSX. There is a “Copy Files” screen in the “Satandalone Settings” window. I have specified the non-stack folders, which are copied, but there is also a “Destination Folder” field and this seems to make no difference as to where the files are copied. I have set this to “Contents/DataFiles/*”, but whatever I set this to doesn’t seem to make any difference. Obviously, I am missing some critical setting. 

Another mystery is that the standalone package contains folders with my “Users” directory tree in the “MacOS” folder. WTF? Why would this be included in a standalone?

I would think there would be better documentation on this, as it is certainly frustrating for a newbie, and I am completely stuck on what should be a trivial problem.

Regards,
Bill

On Nov 27, 2014, at 2:58 PM, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:

> Marty:
> Where do you put the folders that contain external binary and image data? The App Wrapper somehow loses the path to them. The standalone that Livecode creates finds these files, but App Wrapper somehow  loses the link, even tho the files are still present.
> 
> So, I’m worrying over how to organize the external files so that the process goes smoothly.
> Bill
> 
> On Nov 27, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Marty Knapp <martyknappster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ohanaware has just released App Wrapper 3 which I'm using (I'm just code signing, not using the App Store though) with success. Sam Rowlands is a great guy and has specifically worked with RunRev to make his product compatible with Livecode. Version 3 will take of Apple's new version 2 requirements.
>> 
>> <http://www.ohanaware.com/>
>>