On 3/8/11 9:11 PM, edward cawley wrote:
I modified Francis code as follows:
put the platform into GVHoldPlatform
if GVHoldPlatform = "MacOS" then
put "misippfiles/" into GVStackPath -- No leading drive on the Mac.
end if
if GVHoldPlatform = "Win32" then
-- System 7 patch to ensure using the Systems Disk for "StackPath"
on PC's
put item 1 of specialfolderpath("system")& "/misippfiles/"into
GVStackPath-- Get Stack Path with Disk ID.
replace "WINDOWS/" with empty in GVStackPath -- Remove Windows
Folder Name.
end if
You've got a mix of relative and absolute paths there. For MacOS, it's
relative. When your app starts up, assuming you haven't changed the
defaultfolder, the place it is going to look for files is in the same
folder with the standalone. Your path points to a folder called
"missippfiles" inside the standalone folder.
For the Windows segment, the script gets an absolute path to the system
folder at the root of the drive, and looks for your "missippfiles"
folder next to that. I'm betting you aren't storing images there on Windows.
You can use the same folder path for both Mac and Windows. Your image
files are always going to be relative to where your standalone is no
matter which drive holds it, so you don't care about the drive letter.
It isn't necessary to check for platform, just use this for all
operating systems:
put "misippfiles/" into GVStackPath
Put your "misippfiles" folder right next to your standalone, inside the
same enclosing folder.
Be aware that if any of your scripts change the defaultfolder, the paths
won't work any more if you are calculating them on the fly. It would be
a good idea to store GVStackPath in a variable early after startup so
you can use it later, since it isn't going to change. If the scripts
never change the defaultfolder, then you probably don't even need to do
that.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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