I'd love to know what people consider the "best practice" solution to this problem is as well.
On 11/1/2016 10:11 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hello, > > > > after I got the trick on how to handle multiple image sources for different > screen resolutions, I began changing all images in my programs from imported > images to external references. I created on my development platform windows > a "resource" folder under my development folder, referenced my images to > that folder, added all image files to the standalone setting "copy files" > and set the destination folder for the copy files in the standalone setting > also to a folder "resources". So far, that works fine now. > > > > On windows I only create the windows standalone. For the final tests, > adaptions and creating the standalone for Mac OS, I copy the source stack to > my Mac. Here comes my issue. All of my images have a windows path as source > reference, like "C:/myPath/recsources/myImage.png", which obviously doesn't > work on Mac. I tried to set the image source path to a relative path like > "/resources/myImage.png", hoping that would catch the image on both > platforms, but obviously relative paths are not working as image source. > This would be a clean solution for this issue. > > > > Since the transport of the source stacks is not a one time thing, but can be > made quite often in the last steps of the project (to always keep the master > source on my main dev platform windows), it actually can't be it to change > manually all image paths each time after moving the stack from one platform > to the other. Do I oversee anything here, or is the only solution to write a > script, which runs thru all objects and converts the image paths each time I > transfer my stacks? If yes, has anybody such a small tool? I fear, I am the > only one, who is developing on two platforms, otherwise this must have come > up earlier. > > > > How do you handle this? Any recommendations welcome > > Tiemo > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
