MC 2.7 building standalone

[J. Landman Gay]

Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
>> (snip)
>> As of version 2.7 it is important to note that you can't build
>> standalones out of the engine that runs the IDE. Conversely, you can't
>> run any external stacks using a standalone as a "player". So it is
>> important to choose the "standalone" version of the app engine when
>> making a standalone, as that is the only one that will work.
>>
>> -- Jacqueline Landman Gay 
> 
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> Jacqueline,
> 
> your second sentence above
> 
> "Conversely, you can't run any external stacks using a standalone as a 
> "player"
> 
> could be somewhat misleading. You surely intended to say "using *the* 
> standalone file needed to build standalones".

Yes, that's what I meant; sorry. Thanks for the clarification.

> As I was a bit confused at first and to make sure you wanted to express 
> the latter, I made a new standalone with 2.7 of my vintage "MC-Player" 
> (something like Ken Ray's "stackrunner" for running MC and Rev stacks, 
> but without net options - available since two years from my website 
> <http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia>).
> 
> The updated Player for 2.7 stacks was compiled succesfully and works. I 
> will add  it to my website.
> 
> But there is more to the 2.7 "standalone file" needed to build 
> standalones, at least on Windows:
> 
> Rename file "standalone" to "Standalone.exe", and then you can 
> drag-and-drop mc-files on it, which will be opened. You can even again 
> rename "Standalone.exe" to another filename like "Player.exe" and it 
> will work, too.

That's good to know.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com