Hi Terry, Do you know about Economy-x-Talk's installer? That should solve all those problems at once, although I wouldn't install Mac software under Windows. You can find it here http://qery.us/ce
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 What does that error mean? Buy LiveCodeErrors for iPhone now http://qery.us/v4 A must-have for LiveCode programmers. On 28 jul 2011, at 05:46, Terry Judd wrote: > About 3 weeks ago I posted about an issue I had with certain Mac files (those > that are recognised by the MacOS as 'unix executable files') losing their > executable status when they are unpacked using revZip. A couple of solutions > were offered and I'm currently using 'chmod +x [filepath]' to 'reset' these > files. > > However, I still have a problem in that I'm creating a cross-platform > installer/updater that will be writing out (from a zip archive) both Win and > Mac apps/externals/etc at the same time - our software is delivered on a USB > memory stick and includes cross-platform versions of a number of educational > apps. > > If the user installs/updates on a Mac then the chmod solution works > perfectly. If however they are installing/updating under Windows then there > doesn't seem to be any way for me to 'reset' any Mac executable files that > have been updated so that they will function correctly the next time the user > uses the software on a Mac (most of our users have PCs but most of our > computer labs have Macs). Or is there a way that I'm unaware of (a Win > equivalent of chmod)? > > The only idea I have at the moment is to temporarily store a list of files > that need to be reset when the user does their install/update on a PC and > then use this (and clear it afterwards) to do some housekeeping the next time > they start up the software on a Mac. Any other (better) suggestions out there? > > Regards, > > Terry... > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
