Problems with LC 9.0.0 (dp 1)
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Oct 26 17:41:30 EDT 2016
Henry wrote:
> The missing images issue has been resolved. Looks like LC requires
> relative file paths to image files used within mobile apps. When I
> use the IDE to set the source file of an image object, LC stores the
> absolute path to the image on disk:
>
> e.g. /Users/username/Documents/Livecode/LC
> Projects/myProject/images/myImage.png
>
> The absolute path works in the iOS emulator but not on the device.
> Manually changing the paths to relative paths in the image object
> source field within the IDE solves the problem:
>
> e.g. ./images/myImage.png
>
> Can't remember if this is a known issue/feature? In LC Preferences
> under 'Files & Memory' there is an option to 'Always use absolute
> file paths for images' but that doesn't seem to have any effect.
If a feature does nothing it should either be removed or fixed. If you
see that it does nothing in v9 please report it.
I would hope the default is to use relative paths. Absolute paths are
very rarely useful, because as soon as you run the stack on nearly any
other machine it'll break.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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