Building Standalones with Panther/Tiger

David Burgun dburgun at dsl.pipex.com
Thu Sep 22 21:44:05 EDT 2005


Great! Just what I need to here. I get the same. What's up? This 
needs to be addressed and quickly if we are to use RunRev to any 
advantage.

The good old MacOS before X was so much easier!

Dave



>>I haven't observed that problem here. I routinely build apps on 
>>Tiger and deploy on Panther. Could you give us more details about 
>>the app you're trying to build?
>>
>>Devin
>
>I'm building an app that uses AppleScript to control an FM Pro 
>database on the same machine.  I'm not using any external or special 
>resources of any kind.
>
>When I double-click on a Panther-built copy on a Tiger machine the 
>dock twitches briefly as if it's about to show the program icon and 
>then nothing.  If I build the standalone on the Tiger system and 
>double-click again it opens normally!
>
>I get exactly the same effect the other way round on a Panther 
>system, i.e. trying to run a Tiger-built copy.
>
>Both the Tiger and Panther app packages contain:
>    Contents
>       Info.plist
>       MacOS
>          AssessmentCapture
>       PkgInfo
>       PlugIns
>          coreimage_support.bundle
>       Resources
>          Revolution.icns
>          RevolutionDoc.icns
>
>and the file sizes are identical.
>
>If I run my Rev stack from within Rev itself, it works identically, 
>without any problems, on both Tiger and Panther.  It's only as a 
>standalone that I get this behaviour?!
>
>Peter
>--
>Peter Reid
>Reid-IT Limited, Loughborough, Leics., UK
>E-mail: preid at reidit.co.uk
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