Hi Ken, thank you for claryfying, that helps! Tiemo > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Ken Ray > Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. April 2008 00:18 > An: How to use Revolution > Betreff: Re: Mac Newbee question to Mac paths > > > > A typical Mac path would look like this: > > /Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/Mainstack > > > > Shouldn't it be: Hard > Disc/Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/Mainstack > > No, not if the Mac has only a single volume (i.e. hard drive). And when > there are multiple drives, the path is: > > /Volumes/<driveName>/... /... /... (etc.) > > > Can you put your App on a Mac only in: /Applications/ or could you build > any > > folder structure as on windows to put your app also into: > > /Applications/foo/foo/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/Mainstack? > > You can put it anywhere you like, Macs don't care about where apps are > launched from (although putting it in Applications or Utilities > (/Applications/Utilities) is the norm. > > > The documentation tells me about the defaultfolder: "this is the folder > > containing that standalone. On OS X systems, the defaultFolder is set to > the > > folder that contains the application bundle" > > > > The first part would tell me that the defaultfolder is: > > /Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/ > > > > The second part would tell me that the defaultfolder is: /Applications/ > > > > Or is the difference just, how it looks like physical (first part) and > what > > the user sees of it (second part)? > > No, it's actually a question of a "bug fix" that took place a while ago. > You > see the "engine" in an application is embedded on a Mac inside the > application bundle, and the rule was to start with the defaultFolder > pointing to the location of the standalone. On Windows, this was where the > .exe file was, but on Mac it was embedded three layers down in the bundle. > > However this was confusing and required parsing of the defaultFolder to > point to the proper place, so in later versions of Rev, the defaultFolder > pointed to the folder that contained the application bundle (i.e. what the > user sees as the "application"). > > Hope this helps, > > Ken Ray > Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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