Can you use the specialfolderpath function to get the correct locations of your resources on various os's? Bill
William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On May 5, 2017, at 5:33 AM, Phil Jimmieson via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > I’ve got an application for Mac and PC which has been developed over a number > of years and versions of LiveCode and I’m currently trying to build it with > LiveCode 8 on MacOS 10.12. > > A single folder contains both my App and some other folders that contain > supporting materials - images etc. In order to use these image resources I > use image objects in my app that have relative filenames and in the > preopenstack handler of the mainstack I set the defaultfolder to be the > folder containing my app and the support folders. I can work on my app in > the IDE (where the LiveCode source file is in the folder rather than a > compiled app) and all is fine. Images display properly, text files etc. are > all in (relative) place. When I compile the App with LiveCode 8 and put that > in the folder with the resources, all of my images are broken. I’m guessing > that LiveCode is attempting to load them before the defaultfolder is set > correctly and just not finding them (I think the initial value for the > defaultfolder in a compiled MacOS app is the location of the binary - which > is deep inside the app bundle - not the correct place to look for my support > folders). > > Has anyone else seen this and have a solution? Aside from making sure the > defaultfolder was correct there was no need to do anything else in LiveCode 7 > and below. Am I going to have to go through all of my graphics as the > application starts up and replace their filenames with valid absolute paths > or something? > > LiveCode 9 has exactly the same issue. > > -- > Phil Jimmieson p...@liverpool.ac.uk (UK) 0151 795 4236 > Computer Science Dept., Liverpool University, Ashton Building, Ashton Street > Liverpool L69 3BX http://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/~phil/ > I used to sit on a special medical board... ...but now I use this ointment. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
