On 30/11/01 3:21 am, Sarah Reichelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have been having a lot of trouble building a distribution today. Some
> things I have worked around, others I can't but here is what I have found.
> 
> This is using Rev 1.1 on a Mac with OS 9.2, lots of RAM.
> 
> - Quit Revolution completely and then restart without loading your stack
> before building. Otherwise Revolution will quit with a type 2 error.

Not getting that here - do you have a stack and Distribution Builder
configuration file you can send me off-list that I can try this out on?

> - Don't mess with the settings in the Distribution Builder: specifically,
> don't change the name of the sub stacks folder, don't do anything with
> profiles, don't change any resource settings. Changes to some or all of
> these will give script errors during the build.

I tried changing all of these and it all worked - do you have more specific
recipes?

> - at one point, the ask, answer and cursor stacks appeared with my stack in
> the Application view. Delete these manually or the builder will give a
> script error.

Haven't seen this...

> I also changed the background color of my stack which works fine in the IDE,
> but disappears in the application.

Did you choose "Copy fonts and colors"?

> As a matter of interest, I have 3 substacks which get copied into the data
> folder of my application. They then get put in another sub-folder which
> seems redundant. 2 of these stacks have the Rev file type & icon. The 3rd
> stack has no icon and it's file type & creator are "MSTK" & "MCRD".
> 
> These problems only started happening when I changed to making a stack with
> sub stacks as separate files. With a single application file, the
> Distribution Builder worked perfectly.

Sounds like we need to have a copy of it here with a few more specific
recipes so we can track this stuff down.

Regards,

Kevin

Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.runrev.com/>
Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer!
Tel: +44 (0) 870 747 1165.  Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707.

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