Standalone Problems for OSX and OS9 apps

[Sarah Reichelt]

You can read files in Classic, but as the file paths are different, you 
need to use the revMacFromUnixPath function to translate your file 
paths. I haven't got the scripts handy at the moment, but I worked all 
this out a while ago. I'll look them up this evening and post an 
example tomorrow, but it CAN be done, although I too used to think 
otherwise.

Sarah

On 8 Dec 2004, at 9:32 am, Stephen Barncard wrote:

> Why on earth won't a simple file read work in Classic? Even Hypercard 
> works fine in classic! that is the most basic thing a program can do! 
> Is this a bug?
>
> And this of course does not address the printing differences noted in 
> OSX. Why would any of that be different?
>
>> On Dec 7, 2004, at 1:53 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
>>
>>> so today finally after 2 years of using Rev, I've actually tried to 
>>> make some standalones, and the process seems to be straightforward 
>>> and simple. However, the standalones display different results, some 
>>> of which defeat the usefulness of these apps, and the inconsistency 
>>> is bothersome.
>>
>>> 3. The OS 9 stanalone is worse - the grey lines show up in print, 
>>> but no text gets loaded into the table field for editing. Another 
>>> button that loads text from the clipboard works, but loading from a 
>>> file doesn't - only on the OS9 standalone.
>>
>> Are you testing the OS 9 standalone on an OS 9 machine or using 
>> Classic with OS X?  If you are using Classic then reading files will 
>> not work.  It works fine if running under OS 9 however.