Re: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-05 Thread Alex Rice
On Feb 5, 2004, at 12:50 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: I've seen (and made) some tutorials on building icons for Windows apps. And using a utility like Install Creator from Clickteam (www.clickteam.com) is a great way to build an installer for Windows. For Windows I *highly* recommend InnoSetup (it

RE: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-05 Thread Chipp Walters
TED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Rice > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:08 AM > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps... > > > > On Feb 5, 2004, at 12:50 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: > > > I'

RE: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-05 Thread Monte Goulding
Hey anyone, how 'bout making a Rev app do to all of this > stuff automatically? The Distribution Builder already does all this stuff automatically. Cheers Monte ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-05 Thread Alex Rice
On Feb 5, 2004, at 9:01 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hey anyone, how 'bout making a Rev app do to all of this stuff automatically? The Distribution Builder already does all this stuff automatically. Yes, but it does weird stuff- or used to at any rate: Like naming the executable "Revolution", and h

RE: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-05 Thread Monte Goulding
> > Hey anyone, how 'bout making a Rev app do to all of this > >> stuff automatically? > > > > The Distribution Builder already does all this stuff automatically. > > Yes, but it does weird stuff- or used to at any rate: Like naming the > executable "Revolution", I can change this right now... ;-)

Re: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-05 Thread Alex Rice
On Feb 5, 2004, at 10:42 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Yes, but it does weird stuff- or used to at any rate: Like naming the executable "Revolution", I can change this right now... ;-) That's an important one because if the app crashes, then the crash report will say "Revolution" and the user will be

Re: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-05 Thread Alex Rice
On Feb 5, 2004, at 11:43 PM, Alex Rice wrote: CFBundleName can make MacOS display a different name than the executable name, but it's best to just name the executable correctly I think. Key point being- for crash reports you want the executable file named correctly, because CFBundleName won't s

Re: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-05 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 6 Feb 2004, at 3:42 pm, Monte Goulding wrote: and having the wrong (runrev's) copyright information. Under what circumstances? Perhaps if you've left them empty? No, it always puts RunRev's copyright in instead of anything I enter in the DB. I edit it manually in the plist, but this shouldn'

RE: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-06 Thread Monte Goulding
> >> Yes, but it does weird stuff- or used to at any rate: Like naming the > >> executable "Revolution", > > I can change this right now... ;-) > > That's an important one because if the app crashes, then the crash > report will say "Revolution" and the user will be confused. > CFBundleName can ma

RE: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-06 Thread Monte Goulding
> > and having the wrong (runrev's) copyright > >> information. > > Under what circumstances? Perhaps if you've left them empty? > > > > > No, it always puts RunRev's copyright in instead of anything I enter in > the DB. I edit it manually in the plist, but this shouldn't be > necessary. Hmmm...

RE: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-06 Thread Robert Brenstein
Who said Macs were easier? Not when it comes to compiling and delivering apps! (<--WARNING: OBVIOUS TROLL) This has always been true. From day one. Macs have been easier for end users but supporting that properly has always required more work by programmers (even with such great tools like THINK

Re: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-09 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 6 Feb 2004, at 8:34 pm, Robert Brenstein wrote: Who said Macs were easier? Not when it comes to compiling and delivering apps! (<--WARNING: OBVIOUS TROLL) This has always been true. From day one. Macs have been easier for end users but supporting that properly has always required more work by

Re: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-09 Thread Alex Rice
On Feb 9, 2004, at 3:24 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Given that, I still have one problem with an OS X distribution which hopefully some guru on the list will be able to answer :-) (Alex - are you listening?) Sorry, there is only one guru on this list: Sivakatirswami :-) I know this can be done as

Re: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sarah Reichelt wrote: > I have an application and it is all bundled into a neat package, which > I have set up in a folder with a background picture so that it shows > the logo and the install instructions ("Drag this to your applications > folder.") This works fine on my own computer and even whe

Re: Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

2004-02-09 Thread Mark Brownell
On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 02:38 PM, Alex Rice wrote: Given that, I still have one problem with an OS X distribution which hopefully some guru on the list will be able to answer :-) (Alex - are you listening?) Sorry, there is only one guru on this list: Sivakatirswami :-) Yeah :-) ... a