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I just purchased a LiveCode license after dabbling with it a bit. I am trying to save a very simple app as a stand-alone application. I am getting a long string of errors:

"There was an error while saving the standalone application
91,691, 39
125,691,1
241......
"/Users/apple/Applications/LiveCode5.0.2app/................
"

Does anyone have any idea what to do about this? As I said, this is a very simple app. In fact, it's just a test. There are no images. No audio. Nothing expect buttons and text fields.

Originally, I was not getting the error above when attempting to save as standalone application. Instead, I was getting "There want an error while saving the standalone application. Build for MacOSX: could not open outfile". A search of the forums found one post about it. However, the poster "solved" the problem by including some files. I have no ideas what files I should be including.

the "could not open outfile" error is most likely a permissions problem. Make sure you choose a folder that is writable by your current user (or the user that livecode is running as) when you try to create the standalone. Same with just saving the files, if you're careful you can save your stack inside the livecode .app package which isn't necessarily a good idea.

Just to test this, save the stack you want to build into your documents folder, then try the build also to the same folder and see if it works. At least that way a possibility is eliminated.

Also, to look up the funky numbered error codes you can go here. http://runrev.info/error.html

Sturgis,

Thanks for the quick reply. It was a permissions problem. I was trying to put it in Applications. However, I don't run in an Admin account. It might be nice if LiveCode asked us to authenticate instead of giving a non-specific warning.

In any case, I'm rolling now. Thanks again.