V4MD application deployment

[Christian - ChrisKatDev.com]

Le 1 sept. 06 à 16:27, Ruslan Zasukhin a écrit :

> On 9/1/06 12:55 PM, "Pierre Rossel" <prossel2 at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Pierre,
Hi Ruslan,
>
>> 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
I think the same thing that Pierre, it is very important for the
Director developer to be able to proceed thus because of the type of
our users.
INM proceeds thus with impressario : a folder with the librairies in the
folder xtras

>
>> 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.
>
>
Christian
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> Best regards,
>
> Ruslan Zasukhin
> VP Engineering and New Technology
> Paradigma Software, Inc
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