Henry wrote: > The missing images issue has been resolved. Looks like LC requires > relative file paths to image files used within mobile apps. When I > use the IDE to set the source file of an image object, LC stores the > absolute path to the image on disk: > > e.g. /Users/username/Documents/Livecode/LC > Projects/myProject/images/myImage.png > > The absolute path works in the iOS emulator but not on the device. > Manually changing the paths to relative paths in the image object > source field within the IDE solves the problem: > > e.g. ./images/myImage.png > > Can't remember if this is a known issue/feature? In LC Preferences > under 'Files & Memory' there is an option to 'Always use absolute > file paths for images' but that doesn't seem to have any effect.
If a feature does nothing it should either be removed or fixed. If you see that it does nothing in v9 please report it.
I would hope the default is to use relative paths. Absolute paths are very rarely useful, because as soon as you run the stack on nearly any other machine it'll break.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ 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
