Externally reffed-off

[Richmond Mathewson]

My "problem" Klaus is that I don't know YOUR LiveCode,
but I do know MY LiveCode.

I have a theory that once one has been working inwith a system for many 
years
one's methods and mindset become fixed in a way that may not be very useful.

Best, Richmond.

On 10/1/2018 1:32 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> Am 10.01.2018 um 12:17 schrieb Mike Bonner via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>
>> Change it to..
>> set the defaultfolder to item 1 to -5 of the effective filename of this
>> stack
>>
>> and it should work. I don't have an available mac to test though, so
>> tweakage might be necessary. (not likely though its pretty
>> straightforward)
>>
>> You can put it in an if block if you want so that if the environment is
>> development you use the first method, else you use the second.
> Know your Livecode! :-)
> ...
> set the defaultfolder to specialfolderpath("resources")
> ...
>
> This should however not be neccessary since relative pathnames that work in
> the IDE should also work in a standalone and actually do!
>
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 4:05 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Its because of this...
>>>
>>> *Cross-platform note:* On OS X systems, standalone applications are
>>> stored as application bundles. A bundle behaves like a file but is
>>> actually a folder, and the main stack of a standalone application is
>>> inside this folder. The filename of stack property reports the location
>>> of the application inside the bundle, not the bundle'slocation. For
>>> example, if the bundle's file path is "/Volumes/Disk/MyApp.app/", the
>>> filename of the application's main stack might be
>>> "/Volumes/Disk/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp".
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:54 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am currently working on something that calls a lot of external images
>>>> which are stored
>>>> in a folder called "rez" in the same location as my stack, and when my
>>>> stack opens it
>>>> works its way through the script:
>>>>
>>>> onpreOpenStack
>>>>     setitemDelto"/"
>>>>     setthedefaultFoldertoitem 1 to-2 of(theeffectivefileNameofthis stack)
>>>>     gotocard "TITLE"
>>>> endpreOpenStack
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
> --
> Klaus Major
> http://www.major-k.de
> klaus at major-k.de
>
>
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