Can't Build Standalones in OS X
Gregory Lypny
gregory.lypny at videotron.ca
Thu Nov 7 15:39:00 EST 2002
Thanks everyone for the flood of suggestions! Just got back from an
academic disaster and put your adive into practice pronto.
Greg
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> 3. Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X (Simon Lord)
> 4. Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X (Herve Proudhon)
> 5. Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X (Shari)
> 6. Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X (herve at diondine.com)
> 7. Standalone icons (Shari)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 12:20:41 -0500
> From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
> Subject: Can't Build Standalones in OS X
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> Using MC 2.4.3 to build a standalone. I moved resources and followed
> the steps in the standalone builder, but whenever I double-click the
> standalone, it opens, its window appears for a fraction of a second,
> and then disappears. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> Gregory Lypny
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> Concordia University
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:33:00 -0600
> From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> Organization: HyperActive Software
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X
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> On 11/6/02 11:20 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Using MC 2.4.3 to build a standalone. I moved resources and
>> followed the steps in the standalone builder, but whenever I
>> double-click the standalone, it opens, its window appears for a
>> fraction
>> of a second, and then disappears. What am I doing wrong?
>
> What engine are you embedding? I had the same problem trying to build a
> PPC app while running the OS X version. Actually, I can't open the PPC
> engine under Classic at all, it does exactly what you describe.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 12:37:26 -0500
> From: Simon Lord <slord at marelina.com>
> Subject: Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
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> Verify your startup and open stack scripts. Sometimes a runtime will
> hang on something you have there. For a quick test, comment out those
> scripts that do something on "startup" or "on open" etc. If your stack
> does not immediately quit then it's likely something in the boot script
> it does not like.
>
> On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 12:20 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Using MC 2.4.3 to build a standalone. I moved resources and followed
>> the steps in the standalone builder, but whenever I double-click the
>> standalone, it opens, its window appears for a fraction of a second,
>> and then disappears. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>>
>> Gregory Lypny
>> Associate Professor
>> John Molson School of Business
>> Concordia University
>> _________________________
>> "I am just going outside and may be some time."
>> - Captain Lawrence Oates, 17 March 1912, Scott Expedition
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> Sincerely,
> Simon
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:54:52 +0100
> Subject: Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X
> From: Herve Proudhon <herve.proudhon at medecine.univ-mrs.fr>
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
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>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Using MC 2.4.3 to build a standalone. I moved resources and followed
>> the steps in the standalone builder, but whenever I double-click the
>> standalone, it opens, its window appears for a fraction of a second,
>> and then disappears. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Greg
>
> When you ask the system to open a stack with a specific engine, a
> "usro" resource is created. This resource is copied into the standalone
> ; so the system tries to open the standalone with an other one !
> Simply delete this resource with resedit. This works with OsX and
> Classic.
>
> Best regards
>
> Herve Proudhon
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Diondine, a nutrition software.
> http://www.diondine.com
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:27:12 -0500
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> From: Shari <gypsyware at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X
> Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Using MC 2.4.3 to build a standalone. I moved resources and
>> followed the steps in the standalone builder, but whenever I
>> double-click the standalone, it opens, its window appears for a
>> fraction of a second, and then disappears. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Greg
>
> I can verify that it's possible to build a standalone using MC 2.4.3
>
> That's the version I'm currently using, and I have no troubles
> creating a standalone.
>
> Only trouble I (still) have is to prevent Metacard from changing my
> stack icons (the standalone icon is fine).
>
> Shari C
> Gypsy King Software
> --
> --Shareware Games for the Mac--
> http://www.gypsyware.com
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> Message: 6
> From: herve at diondine.com
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:38:23 +0100
> Subject: Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Using MC 2.4.3 to build a standalone. I moved resources and followed
>> the steps in the standalone builder, but whenever I double-click the
>> standalone, it opens, its window appears for a fraction of a second,
>> and then disappears. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Greg
>
> When you ask the system to open a stack with a specific engine, a
> "usro" resource is created. This resource is copied into the standalone
> ; so the system tries to open the standalone with an other one !
> Simply delete this resource with resedit. This works with OsX and
> Classic.
>
> Best regards
>
> Herve Proudhon
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Diondine, a nutrition software.
> http://www.diondine.com
>
>
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>
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:58:48 -0500
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> From: Shari <gypsyware at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Standalone icons
> Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>
> I think I figured out why my icons keep reverting, for the stacks
> that get distributed with the standalone, but are not part of it.
>
> The standalone saves the stack frequently (that's the purpose of the
> stack, to hold saved data). It occurred to me that while I
> originally saved the stack with a specific stackFileType, the
> standalone just does a "save stack theStack". I'm guessing it uses
> the Metacard generic stackFileType when it saves, rather than it's
> own creator code.
>
> Testing this theory today.
>
> Shari C
> --
> --Shareware Games for the Mac--
> http://www.gypsyware.com
>
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