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[Richmond Mathewson]

Well, YOUR LiveCode, MY LiveCode, EVERYONE'S LiveCode: YOUR recipe worked.

Thanks a bucket!

Richmond.

On 10/1/2018 2:01 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi Richmond,
>
>> Am 10.01.2018 um 12:57 schrieb Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>
>> My "problem" Klaus is that I don't know YOUR LiveCode,
> that's why I wrote "Know YOUR Livecode" and not "Know MY Livecode", Sir! :-)
>
>> 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.
> But you know specialfolderpath("resources") and the fact that everything you add to
> your standalone(s) via the "Copy files..." tab in the standalone builder settings can be
> found in that sepcialfolderpath in the standalone?
>
>> 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!
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
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>
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