Opening application in OS X

[gareth-davies]

Hi everyone,

I'm running FM Pro 5.5v2 Developer under Mac OS 10.2.4 developing a cross platform CD. I've done cross platform disks in the past, but this is the first time I've created a cross platform Windows / Mac OS X CD. The main application is complete, however, in the past I've created a small starter app which autoruns on the CD. This takes the user through some help screens and gives them options to download latest versions of such stuff like Quicktime from Web sites etc using buttons. The final screen allows them to install the main app onto their hard disk. This is where I'm having the problem.

The Windows version works fine. In the script I use an If statement that checks the platform the file is running on and then the Sent Message function pointing to the .exe file (which is the compressed installer) for the Windows bit. The Sent Apple Event function for the Mac OS X condition has problems. This points to an Installer created using FileStorm Pro. I can select the app, but the resulting Script line says

Send Apple Event ["<unknown>","aevt","oapp"]

When run the error:

"<unknown>" cannot be found and is required to complete this operation.

is generated.

Next I tried the Get URL function (since this sometimes works in preference), pointing to a global field holding the path name to the app.

file://CITB Awards Install CD/Install CITB Award Software

This does nothing.

Any ideas, or is this a known bug?

Gareth

[cjaeger]

Use

file:///Volumes/CITB%20Awards%20Install%20CD/Install%20CITB%20Award%20Software

Please note that urls need to be url-encoded.

And with OS X, mounted volumes as CD-ROMs are accessible under /Volumes/ cd-name.

[gareth-davies]

Thanks for this. It's now working, however, I found that I had to add the extension .app to the Application it was pointing to eg:

file:///Volumes/CITB%20Awards%20Install%20CD/Install%20CITB%20Award%20Software.app

This does not show up in the folder window, but does when putting the file into Toast Titanium for cutting.