Standalone using revBrowserCef

[lohill]

I made a stand alone of my application in which i wanted to be able to use a Chrome browser instead of Explorer. (Explorer is not able to handle the long URLs that my program needs.) I am using LiveCode Community 6.7 (dp 6) and in the IDE it seems to be working just the way I would like. As a standalone, though, what used to be a 15MB file is now a 72MB file. Zipped it shot up from 4.6MB to 28.9MB which is now too large to send by email or upload to my Yahoo group. The culprit appears to be the folder in the folder Externals called CEF which is 59.5MB. When the 'stable' version of 6.7 is released will this situation still be basically the same?

What are my options for being able to share an application of this size with others?

Thanks,
Larry

[Mark]

Hi Larry,

Since it is a dp, it isn't really meant to distribute your apps. This dp version may include some debugging routines and unmodified versions of libraries, which make the standalone pretty big. Future versions will probably be bigger than older versions due to inclusion of modern libraries, but I would expect that RunRev will find a way to slim down the standalone to an acceptable size.

Which file exactly has the biggest file size? Do you really need that file? If yes, just keep an eye on new releases and let's hope that a slimmer version will appear soon.

Kind regards,

Mark

[lohill]

That is encouraging information Mark. I was so excited about the Chrome browser access that I just had to try the standalone even though I had to use the dp version.

The file that was so large was the folder called CEF that was found in the Externals folder of the PC standalone. I assume that the same thing is hidden in the Mac version as well because that is extra large also. I can hardly wait for the 'slimmer' version.

Regards,
Larry