Newbie Question: Standalones and the Message Box

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Newbie Question: Standalones and the Message Box

Post by dave_syntax » Mon May 24, 2010 5:52 pm

Hi Guys & Girls

I'm trying to debug a standalone, which runs fine in the IDE on my mac and as a standalone, but when testing on a PC the .exe fails to find the linked QT files and displays a white QT box.

Rather than post the code - which is a tutorial on runrev lessons. I would rather try and suss it myself.

I'm assuming I have a relative path issue and was going to put theVideoFile name into the Message Box.
This works great for testing in the IDE, but I can't work out how to see the Message Box when running the standalone.

Am I debugging in the correct way? Or should I log all the Messages to a text file?

Any help would be appreciated!!

Cheers
Dave

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Re: Newbie Question: Standalones and the Message Box

Post by jmburnod » Mon May 24, 2010 10:41 pm

Hi Dave,
Unfortunately, there is no many girls on this forum

You can see same post about filePath for standalone Mac and PC here

http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... 329#p24061

I hope this help

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Re: Newbie Question: Standalones and the Message Box

Post by dave_syntax » Wed May 26, 2010 2:14 pm

Thanks for the reply - I'll take a look!

I did find out my issue - my setup:

Running Windows XP through VMware Fusion on my Mac and the files were on a mounted shared mac volume.
As soon as I burnt a disc of the files and tested that it worked!

So I am now using iso images for testing - which works as well

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