V4MD application deployment

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 9/1/06 12:55 PM, "Pierre Rossel" <prossel2 at myrealbox.com> wrote:

Hi Pierre,

> I read from the V4MD reference that Vcomponents folder content should be
> copied in the application folder.

Not folder itself, but its files
 
> This is not fine because I always tried to keep the application folder as
> clean as possible (from the user's perspective) by moving all unnecessary
> files in a data folder. This leave the application folder with
> - the application executable
> - the xtras folder
> - a data folder where all application stuff is stored (and maybe with more
> subfolders)

Sorry no other way currently
 
> And now I have to copy a bunch of files in that folder (which can also be
> the CD-rom root) ? The end user will be confused and won't know which file
> to run.
> 
> So, this is a request for a slight modification in the way V4MD xtra finds
> Vcomponents it needs. Could the xtra also look for the vresources in the
> folder from which the xtra is loaded ? If it is not possible to know the
> xtra path, then at least check the xtras folder in the application.
> 
> By the way, Director finds xtras files in the xtras folder, but it also runs
> through all subfolders from there.


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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