Sorry now I understand. I do not have a solution other then create a symbolic link: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2001110610290643
open the OSX Terminal and type ln -s /Applications/web2py.app/Contents/Resources/ /Users/<you>/Desktop/web2py_contents then edit the files inside /Users/<you>/Desktop/web2py_contents On Friday, 19 July 2013 07:51:13 UTC-5, davedigerati wrote: > > Massimo, first and foremost kudos and thanks to you for leading such a > fabulous framework! I am a former php'er learning python through web2py > and enjoying it immensely. > > I am able to find the files as you describe, but the problem is not for me > to find the files, but for programs. Applications such as text editors can > not see these files in this way. To them they can only see the one > app/package. So normally where a program like Coda would be able to > 'import' all the files of a project for the designer to then edit css, html > code, Coda can not. > > With the number of designers on Mac I'm assuming there is a way for this > to work, but could not find it in google/this group/or the documentation. > > I tried coping them outside the package to then edit them, but of course > they were no longer seen by the app and previewing them as raw html is next > to useless then. > > Basically I need to globally reset the apps views and static files path to > one outside the package, perform some sort of symlink magic, start > exploring compiling from source which I suspect will not be a tidy app and > editable files, or hope that someone here has already solved this;) > > Thanks! > > On Friday, July 19, 2013 4:49:48 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> A Mac Package is nothing but a folder with name ending in .app. Right >> click on it from Finder and click on "Show Package Contents". This will >> open the package and you will be able to browse it and edit the fields it >> contains, in particular Contents/Resources/applications/.... >> >> On Thursday, 18 July 2013 22:26:48 UTC-5, davedigerati wrote: >>> >>> >>> Newbie, first app with web2py, on OS X, have tried google/group/docs and >>> am struggling with workflow: >>> >>> The Mac binary is a package so the views & static files are hidden from >>> the system- how are people designing front ends without pulling the files >>> out (which breaks previewing) ? >>> >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
