Thank you much Jacque, I'm almost there.
I made the changes you suggested and I have one remaining problem.
If I run it off the shared disk in VM Fusion it works fine, but if I move the
app and associated files <Misippfiles> to the C drive on the students laptops,
or on the C drive on the Windows OS on the VM Fusion, the last 60 files in the
<Misippfiles> folder do not transfer. I have 300 small files on the folder, is
there some limit on how many files can be in a folder in Windows? If not any
ideas why they do not transfer? Is it a Window problem or a VM problem?
Thanks again.
Ed
On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:17 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote:
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> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:53:14 -0600
> From: "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Standalone problem
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> 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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