How to do clean install of MetaCard?

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Fri Sep 10 23:08:14 EDT 2004


Hi Chipp,

> I need to run MC on a new Mac (Panther). From the MC IDE User Group:
>
> " The engine that drives the MC IDE is Runtime Revolution. The latest 
> version is available at runrev.com.
> After downloading, you'll need to place the engine into the MetaCard 
> folder, renaming it to "mc.exe" on Windows, "MetaCard" on Mac Classic, 
> and "mc" on Linux. On OS X you need to copy the executable from the 
> the Revolution bundle in Revolution.app/Contents/MacOS/Revolution to 
> MetaCard.app/Contents/MacOS/MetaCard"
>
> 1) The MC IDE of course doesn't contain a MetaCard.app

Right.

> 2) If I copy the Revolution.app and rename it MetaCard.app and then 
> change the executable name inside the bundle to MetaCard, it won't 
> launch at all (using RR 2.5)

Copy only the executable from the the Revolution bundle in 
"Revolution.app/Contents/MacOS/Revolution" to 
"MetaCard.app/Contents/MacOS/MetaCard"
and not the complete application package.

> Help anyone?

No, thanks ;-)

> best,
>
> Chipp

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de



More information about the metacard mailing list