The other day when firing up TextWrangler, I saw the message that Apple
now shows once when opening a 32bit app – that it should be updated (for
64bit). Which got me thinking about older Livecode projects.
A few years ago I did a series of modules for a client (using Livecode
7) that included many mp3 files, in a folder named 'media' and accessed
through a player. I had used this in the stack script:
on setgMediaPath
global gMediaPath
//-------SET THE MEDIA PATH; for some reason this MUST be in
its own handler, not in openStack or preOpenStack
set the itemDelimiter to slash
put the effective fileName of this stack into gMediaPath
delete the last item of gMediaPath
put gMediaPath & slash & "media" & slash into gMediaPath
end setgMediaPath
Today I opened up a module in LiveCode 9, chose Mac OS X 64-bit, and
made a standalone, but the sound files didn't play. After rummaging
around in the package and some experimenting, it seems the module now
wants sound files to be in
APPNAME/APPNAME.app/Contents/Resources/_MacOS/media/
The dictionary for 9.0 has this cryptic entry for 'filename':
"The use of was deprecated in version 8.1 of LiveCode with new defaults
for and as true on all systems apart from pre OS X 10.8. The Windows
build of LiveCode no longer supports any features and setting the and
will have no effect. Additionally does not include 64 bit support and
therefore can not be supported on OS X 64 bit builds of LiveCode."
1) If the client wants to go ahead and update for 64bit compatibility at
some point, will I need to go into each module and replace
put gMediaPath & slash & "media" & slash into gMediaPath
with
put gMediaPath & slash & "Resources" & slash & "_MacOS" & slash &
"media" & slash into gMediaPath
2) Any other issues to be aware of when managing this transition?
Thanks!
Curt
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