Paths in Mac standalone headache

[John Dixon]

Would this help you in setting the defaultfolder

on preOpenStack
   set itemDel to "/" 
   set the defaultfolder to item 1 to -2 of (the effective fileName of this stack)
end preOpenStack


> From: dvglasgow at gmail.com
> Subject: Paths in Mac standalone headache
> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 11:37:55 +0100
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> 
> In my apps openstack script I setup a path for saving and getting results using specialfolderpath(“documents”), and put that in a global gresultspath
> 
> I use that to access results in a couple of places within substacks, using a fairly standard script.  This works fine in development, and fine on Windows standalone.
> 
> In all cases on the Mac the results files are never loaded, because the path isn’t properly set.  I bunged in a debugging field to see what is happening:
> 
> on mouseUp
>    global gresultspath
>    put the defaultfolder into toldefault
>    set the defaultfolder to gresultspath
>    
>    --   whats going on with the results path?
>    put  “Was  " & toldefault & return & “Should be  " & gresultspath & return & "Is  " & the defaultfolder into field  “whatsgoingon"
>    
>    put the files into ttemp
>    filter ttemp without ".DS_Store"
>    filter ttemp without "template"
>    put ttemp into field "resultsfiles"
>    set the defaultfolder to toldefault
> end mouseUp
> 
>  On Windows the path is set as expected.  On Mac, wherever I move the app to, the default folder doesn’t get set, and the files which are put into ttemp are any within the folder containing the app.  So, the debugging field reports:
> 
> Was  = correct path
> Should be  = correct path 
> Is  = path to the standalone
> 
>  I am using 6.7.4 on Snow Leopard
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> David Glasgow 
> 
> 
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