standalones and external files

[J. Landman Gay]

On 2/23/11 4:59 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 2/23/11 2:59 PM, edward cawley wrote:
>> I'm still having problems with the standalones. I have tried it
>> setting my stack "KTRiver" as a standalone directly and by way of a
>> Launcher stack. In both cases the resulting apps do not access the
>> files in a Resources folder which is in the same folder with the
>> standalone app.The Launcher standalone works fine but my "KTRiver"
>> livecode stack is present and will run but none of the images , audio
>> or text fields which are in the resources file show. It acts as if
>> they can't find the "filename".
>
> I'm not sure I understand how you've set things up. Have you embedded
> all these resources into a stack? If so, your standalone needs to
> specifically open that stack so it is in the message path.
>
> But it's usually better and more reliable to just make your resources
> stack a substack of the main one before you build a standalone. Then you
> don't have to worry about it, everything is always available. You don't
> have to open anything or even show the substack.
>
> Another way is to forget about a resources stack, and move all the
> resources into files on disk. Then reference them by path in your
> scripts. For images, you'd set the filename of the image object to the
> path on disk. For audio and video, set the filename of a player object.
> That's often the best way to handle it, and is usually less memory
> intensive.
>

On second thought, maybe you are already loading files from disk. If so, 
it's most likely a path problem. How are you referencing the files? Are 
you using relative paths?

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