Trevor at Blue Mango wrote a excellent article about installing externals. In it he said
Open the Externals.txt file (1), creating it if necessary. You need to add one line to this file that tells Revolution about your external. The line contains 2 items. The 1st item is the name of your external as it appears in the externalPackages property (2). In this example I'm using the EnhancedQT external so that name is EnhancedQT. The 2nd item is the name of the external file The problem I am having is with the name of the first item which is the name of the external as it appears in the externalPackages property. In the lesson that name is EnhancedQT. But the name of the second item is the file name which in this case is EnhancedQT.Bundle. So both items togethor make the single line to add which is EnhancedQT,EnhancedQT.Bundle. That is pretty easy but the problem is the first item is not always named the same as the file name. It could have been anything other than EnhancedQT. If it was always the name of the file name without the .Bundle this would solve all the problems. How do you get the name of the first item if you do not know what it is. You could try the name of the file and not include the .Bundle and in this case you would get lucky and it would work. John Balgenorth _______________________________________________ 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
