I have been scripting for a couple of years now but have only recently started to learn Applescript Studio. Everything is going fine and I’ve written applications which work but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to make it so I can install these apps on other machines. I need to deploy what I’ve written on 7 other macs that don’t have the developer tools installed and after hours of trawling through the online help and google I’m still none the wiser. Can anybody put me out of my misery?
Many thanks
Um, no other people need developer tools unless your program is a plug in or addition to the developer tools suite themselves.
If you have built your app and it doesn’t work, make sure A. that you have the build setting set to deployment B. zerolink is turned off C. maybe you want it to be universal.
You have your application on your hard drive, or its in the ‘developement’ or ‘deployment’ folder where it was built, right? If it’s a good deployment build (and self sufficient, that is, doesn’t require some other fancy system additions, OSAXs, plug ins, or haxies), just copy the app to another computer. Double click to run.
If you’ve done this and I’m being redundant, please add some additional details about what you are/n’t doing.
Chris
It’s usually easier to change the build configuration to ‘Release’ or ‘Deployment’ than turning off the debug features (which are a main point of the ‘Debug’ or ‘Developement’ configurations).
I tried what you said but it won’t work which is why I got confused. Example - I just went to the “Display Alert” example Applescript Studio Project and opened the .xcoedproj file. I changed he build configuration to “release” and built the app. Inside the Display Alert folder another folder appears named “Build” and inside this a folder named “Release”, and in there the icon which I assume is the stand-alone application. I can move this anywhere on my machine and it will launch fine, and I can access and manipulate it with other scripts. However, when I try and launch it on another machine it simply fails.
Any Ideas?
OK I figured it out - I was copying the app onto our central RAID system, then retrieving it from the other machines I need to install on and this is when things wouldn’t work. If I email the app, or write it to a CD and put it onto the other machines that way everything is fine.
So, problem solved but can anybody explain why this is the case? I’d be interested to know to avoid future problems.