the defaultFolder in standalones: Changed in 8

[Devin Asay]

Done. http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18008

> On Jul 12, 2016, at 4:20 PM, Ali Lloyd <ali.lloyd at livecode.com> wrote:
> 
> Speaking as the person who most likely caused the change, I'm pretty sure
> that wasn't intentional. Definitely worth filing a bug report.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:02 PM Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I just noticed this change today as I was moving a project to LC 8.
>> 
>> On Mac OS X, in v. 7 and earlier when you saved a stack as a standalone,
>> the defaultFolder would be set to the folder containing the .app bundle;
>> e.g., /Users/me/myproject.
>> 
>> In v. 8 when you save a stack as a standalone the defaultFolder is set to
>> the app bundle itself; e.g., /Users/me/myproject/mystack.app.
>> 
>> I have often used the pre-8 behavior to allow my standalone to easily
>> access files in the enclosing folder. V. 8 breaks that functionality.
>> 
>> So is this a bug or a feature? I usually read the release notes pretty
>> closely, but don’t remember reading about this change? It can potentially
>> break lots of projects like it did mine. (Although I can pretty easily come
>> up with a workaround.)
>> 
>> The main question is, was this an intentional change or a regression bug?
>> 
>> Devin
>> 
>> 
>> Devin Asay
>> Office of Digital Humanities
>> Brigham Young University
>> 
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Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University