V4MD: Crash when VComponents files are in same folder as Xtra

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 11/14/06 10:52 PM, "Pierre Rossel" <prossel2 at myrealbox.com> wrote:

Hi Pierre, 

> Hello,
> 
> Ruslan, you closed the bug 1986 in Mantis
> http://www.valentina-db.com/bt/view.php?id=1986
> 
> If you don't consider as a bug the fact that Vcomponents files must be in
> the same folder as the application (i.e. at the root of CD), could you at
> least consider as a feature request those files being "hidden" in a
> subdirectory, for example in the Xtras Folder ?

This is not easy, and right now we cannot do this.
 
> Your code can find the components near the xtra under windows, why not on OS
> X ? 

Its NOT our code find it there...probably Director self set that folder as
working directory. No idea.

> Apparently it can find them because there is a crash. If those files are
> in another place or missing, the is an error message, not a crash. So the
> problem is probably not so deep.
> 
> Currently, Valentina forces OS X application to clutter its root with files
> that users just don't have to cope with. As a Director developer, I don't
> like that. Xtras are supposed to stay in the xtras folder, we can tolerate
> other files in the xtras folder, but not on root. Would you like to have
> your application (say Vstudio) forced to be distributed with several files
> on root of the .dmg image by some of the components you use ? Of course no.
> We don't like this either.
> 
> This is not a show stopper bug, of course. But it just makes things not
> nice. Please keep it as a feature request.

1) I believe that I have see that somebody from director users have made for
Projector a package. Please take a look into V4RB docs, Deployment section
about how to do this...

May be I am wrong, and this will not work for Director made app


2) what if mark Valentina files to be invisible ?


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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