Where's my Image Library? It didn't copy over with my App!
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Where's my Image Library? It didn't copy over with my App!
Help! I've built an application in Enterprise (2.7.1 build 236) booting up in OSX on an external drive - everything is fine, including the custom Image Library I created to hold about thirty icons used by my application's buttons.
But now I've installed OSX on my internal drive and when I open a copy of my application on that drive my buttons show NO icons. The buttons' inspectors show the icon id numbers but when I look in the Application Browser, my Image Library is no where to be found. How can I get my Image Library to stay with my application?
1) This is not a StandAlone
2) I've copied over everything I can think of from the external drive
3) I've done a re-install of Enterprise
4) the Image Library is still present & works fine in the copy of my application running on the external drive
Thanks for any help, I'm new at Revolution and there's clearly something I'm missing.
Doug
But now I've installed OSX on my internal drive and when I open a copy of my application on that drive my buttons show NO icons. The buttons' inspectors show the icon id numbers but when I look in the Application Browser, my Image Library is no where to be found. How can I get my Image Library to stay with my application?
1) This is not a StandAlone
2) I've copied over everything I can think of from the external drive
3) I've done a re-install of Enterprise
4) the Image Library is still present & works fine in the copy of my application running on the external drive
Thanks for any help, I'm new at Revolution and there's clearly something I'm missing.
Doug
Hi Doug,
What have you tried to make sure that your custom image library is available to your stack? What makes you think that it should be available?
Is your custom image library available in Revolution's Image Library? Why do you think it should appear in the Application Browser?
Where exactly did you see your custom library in the old situation?
Best,
Mark
What have you tried to make sure that your custom image library is available to your stack? What makes you think that it should be available?
Is your custom image library available in Revolution's Image Library? Why do you think it should appear in the Application Browser?
Where exactly did you see your custom library in the old situation?
Best,
Mark
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Mark,
Thank you for your reply. The answers to your questions are:
>What have you tried to make sure... library is available to your stack?
Nothing directly related to the image library. Is there something I need to do? All I've done is to make a copy of my application - I just select my application's icon in the usual Mac fashion and drag and drop it on the other Disk icon on my desk top. Later, when that disk is my StartUp Disk, my custom icons don't appear on my application's buttons and the name of my custom image library ("MyIcons") is not in the Application Browser.
>What makes you think that it should be available?
I thought that when I make a copy of my application e.g., by a drag/drop to somewhere, that everything gets copied with it i.e., all the substacks of my Application plus my custom image library (but I guess the image library is not brought along).
>Is your custom image library available in Revolution's Image Library?
No. The name "MyIcons" is still in the Rev Menu: Development/Image Library (along with "Standard Images," "MetaCard Compatible Icons" etc.). But, when I choose "MyIcons" in the menu the display comes up empty i.e., my icons are not displayed, just empty rectangles where they normally are.
>Why do you think it should appear in the Application Browser?
It always has before i.e., it appears in the list that I normally see when I open the Application Browser along with all the other stacks (my Main Stack & subStacks & all the "rev" stacks). It is present in the list as "revLibMyIcons".
>Where exactly did you see your custom library in the old situation?
As explained above, all the icons that I created are normally visible when I choose the Rev Menu: Development/Image Library/MyIcons - and I can move the mouse over each one and to see its id number etc.
Doug
Thank you for your reply. The answers to your questions are:
>What have you tried to make sure... library is available to your stack?
Nothing directly related to the image library. Is there something I need to do? All I've done is to make a copy of my application - I just select my application's icon in the usual Mac fashion and drag and drop it on the other Disk icon on my desk top. Later, when that disk is my StartUp Disk, my custom icons don't appear on my application's buttons and the name of my custom image library ("MyIcons") is not in the Application Browser.
>What makes you think that it should be available?
I thought that when I make a copy of my application e.g., by a drag/drop to somewhere, that everything gets copied with it i.e., all the substacks of my Application plus my custom image library (but I guess the image library is not brought along).
>Is your custom image library available in Revolution's Image Library?
No. The name "MyIcons" is still in the Rev Menu: Development/Image Library (along with "Standard Images," "MetaCard Compatible Icons" etc.). But, when I choose "MyIcons" in the menu the display comes up empty i.e., my icons are not displayed, just empty rectangles where they normally are.
>Why do you think it should appear in the Application Browser?
It always has before i.e., it appears in the list that I normally see when I open the Application Browser along with all the other stacks (my Main Stack & subStacks & all the "rev" stacks). It is present in the list as "revLibMyIcons".
>Where exactly did you see your custom library in the old situation?
As explained above, all the icons that I created are normally visible when I choose the Rev Menu: Development/Image Library/MyIcons - and I can move the mouse over each one and to see its id number etc.
Doug
Where's my Image Library? It didn't copy over with my App!
Mark,
Whoa, Sorry - I was confused about something in my post and gave you one piece of wrong information.
In my answer to your question:
>Is your custom image library available in Revolution's Image Library?
I stated:
No. (THAT IS CORRECT, BUT THE FOLLOWING IS NOT ) The name "MyIcons" is still in the Rev Menu: Development/Image Library (along with "Standard Images," "MetaCard Compatible Icons" etc.). But, when I choose "MyIcons" in the menu the display comes up empty i.e., my icons are not displayed, just empty rectangles where they normally are.
i.e., when my bottons fail to show my icons, the name "MyIcons" is NOT in the Rev Menu: Development/Image Library.
Doug
Whoa, Sorry - I was confused about something in my post and gave you one piece of wrong information.
In my answer to your question:
>Is your custom image library available in Revolution's Image Library?
I stated:
No. (THAT IS CORRECT, BUT THE FOLLOWING IS NOT ) The name "MyIcons" is still in the Rev Menu: Development/Image Library (along with "Standard Images," "MetaCard Compatible Icons" etc.). But, when I choose "MyIcons" in the menu the display comes up empty i.e., my icons are not displayed, just empty rectangles where they normally are.
i.e., when my bottons fail to show my icons, the name "MyIcons" is NOT in the Rev Menu: Development/Image Library.
Doug
Re: Where's my Image Library? It didn't copy over with my Ap
Did this start to happen after you installed OSX? I only ask that because on my system Revolution stores the resources from the image library and etc. on a stack with in the Documents folder called "My Revolution Studio" with in that folder is another labeled; "Resources" Then should be a few more folders labeled Icon Libraries, Object Libraries that have a stack of the Libraries of Icons and Objects that where added by the user of revoultion.dbowling wrote:
But now I've installed OSX on my internal drive and when I open a copy of my application on that drive my buttons show NO icons. The buttons' inspectors show the icon id numbers but when I look in the Application Browser, my Image Library is no where to be found. How can I get my Image Library to stay with my application?
I am thinking maybe if you just did an Operating System install maybe revolution does not have a correct path to this resource folder. or the old resource folder is missing, due to the OS install ? or something like that.
I try to see if you can find these , and if not. then that may be where the problem starts.
-ob
Hi Doug,
You seem to have the impression that you are copying an application. This is not true. You are copying one ore more documents, most of which are probably Revolution stacks. The stack revLibMyIcons is not part of this collection of documents.
Having installed Mac OS X on your internal drive, you have probably created a new Applications folder and a new Documents folder. I see two possibilties.
Perhaps you installed a fresh copy of Revolution on your internal hard disk. If the custom image library was in the old Revolution folder inside your applications folder, the library is obviously not in the new Revolution folder in the new applications folder on your internal hard disk.
If you copied the Revolution folder from your old applications folder into your new applications folder, the custom image library was not in that folder, but in the My Revolution folder in your old documents folder. If you copy this folder into the new documents folder on your internal hard disk, the custom image library should be available again.
Let me know whether this helps.
Best regards,
Mark
You seem to have the impression that you are copying an application. This is not true. You are copying one ore more documents, most of which are probably Revolution stacks. The stack revLibMyIcons is not part of this collection of documents.
Having installed Mac OS X on your internal drive, you have probably created a new Applications folder and a new Documents folder. I see two possibilties.
Perhaps you installed a fresh copy of Revolution on your internal hard disk. If the custom image library was in the old Revolution folder inside your applications folder, the library is obviously not in the new Revolution folder in the new applications folder on your internal hard disk.
If you copied the Revolution folder from your old applications folder into your new applications folder, the custom image library was not in that folder, but in the My Revolution folder in your old documents folder. If you copy this folder into the new documents folder on your internal hard disk, the custom image library should be available again.
Let me know whether this helps.
Best regards,
Mark
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Ob! Mark!
Thank You, Thank You. Exactly!
I found my library "revLibMyIcons.rev" in my Mac OSX Documents (in "My Revolution" folder) on the external drive, copied it over to the internal drive, rebooted from that drive, put "revLibMyIcons.rev" into that Mac OSX's Documents AND ALL IS WELL.
What a relief - and now I'll go back to the Rev documentation and read with some new understanding. I'll also keep on eye on the My Revolution folder to see what else appears there as I continue to work on my project.
Thank you both again,
Doug
Thank You, Thank You. Exactly!
I found my library "revLibMyIcons.rev" in my Mac OSX Documents (in "My Revolution" folder) on the external drive, copied it over to the internal drive, rebooted from that drive, put "revLibMyIcons.rev" into that Mac OSX's Documents AND ALL IS WELL.
What a relief - and now I'll go back to the Rev documentation and read with some new understanding. I'll also keep on eye on the My Revolution folder to see what else appears there as I continue to work on my project.
Thank you both again,
Doug