New(?) Idea for Standalones

[Robert J. Earp]

I too remember the good ‘ol days Roger and in fact still have one of my eLearning shell projects that still runs stand-alone on both Catalina and Windows, although I’d have to check which version of Windows.  The project has stacks calling stacks and external media.  The MacOS stand-alone version is just a single file that I’ve shared without having to license from anybody, with what I’ve always assumed is  a runtime engine packaged in it some how.  The Windows version has an .exe and the media and externals are in separate folders and again I assume it has the Rev engine.   I haven’t tried this with Big Sur.

But going back to you suggestion, as you know I think LC has totally lost focus on what its heritage was, except maybe LC Server, if that still exists.  If it does, you should be able to develop on whatever, deliver on a web server with LC Server loaded, and anybody could run the project anywhere there is a browser.  Or along with willy and nilly have I totally lost it, which has been known on occasion !!

best, Bob...

> On Mar 27, 2021, at 09:00, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:45:21 -0700
> From: Roger Guay <irog at mac.com <mailto:irog at mac.com>>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
> Subject: Re: New(?) Idea for Standalones
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> In the good ol days, I could build a standalone for the Mac, Windows and Linux and distribute it willy-nilly. Now I have to jump thru intolerable hoops (at least for the Mac) to give someone my standalone. if someone (hint. . .hint) could build a Livecode reader app for dirt cheap or even free w advertising that would run LC standalones, everything would be right in the world again! 
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> I think my martini is showing...
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> Roger
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>> On Mar 26, 2021, at 5:35 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
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>> What are you looking for?  When were these "good ol days" in which one could run stack files without an engine, and how did that work?
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Robert (Bob) Earp
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British Columbia
Canada

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