Externally reffed-off

[Richmond Mathewson]

Thank you very much, that's a great help.

Richmond.

On 10/1/2018 1:17 pm, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
> 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.
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 4:05 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Its because of this...
>>
>> *Cross-platform note:* On OS X systems, standalone applications are
>> stored as application bundles. A bundle behaves like a file but is
>> actually a folder, and the main stack of a standalone application is
>> inside this folder. The filename of stack property reports the location
>> of the application inside the bundle, not the bundle'slocation. For
>> example, if the bundle's file path is "/Volumes/Disk/MyApp.app/", the
>> filename of the application's main stack might be
>> "/Volumes/Disk/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp".
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:54 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am currently working on something that calls a lot of external images
>>> which are stored
>>> in a folder called "rez" in the same location as my stack, and when my
>>> stack opens it
>>> works its way through the script:
>>>
>>> onpreOpenStack
>>>      setitemDelto"/"
>>>      setthedefaultFoldertoitem 1 to-2 of(theeffectivefileNameofthis stack)
>>>      gotocard "TITLE"
>>> endpreOpenStack
>>>
>>> nothing particularly odd there.
>>>
>>> each image has "rez/imagename.png"
>>>   set as its source.
>>>
>>> AND everything works in the stack.
>>>
>>> So would be extremely grateful why, when a Mac standalone is placed in
>>> exactly
>>> the same relation to the "rez" folder it does not "pick up" the images.
>>>
>>> Richmond.
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