After moving my project to another (external) drive and resetting the location of all the project's external files in the event editor (and including 'include external files' in App. properties), there are no external files in the stand alone application. When building, a pop-up informs me that files on the old drive will not be included, although they are no longer referenced in event editor. I have tried building to the old drive as well, but still no files. Any thoughts?
do not compress the runtime
Are you sure that the files aren't referenced anymore? If they appear in the Data Elements / External Files tab then they are still in use somewhere in you app.
Compressing or not at runtime appears to make no difference.
There were (now deleted) references to now no longer existent files but these were not referenced during runtime.
When I build the stand alone app to a drive (C or E), I am told that files on the other drive will not be included. However, saving to E does not include the E files. Saving to C appears to solve the problem now and appears to include all the files even the files the build process said would not be included.
When you build a stand-alone application in a directory, the external files used by the stand-alone application must be in this directory (or in sub-directories of this directory) with the same relative pathnames as in the MFA file.
For example if the MFA file is in c:\xyz and contains a reference to c:\xyz\subdir\picture.png, and you build your stand-alone application to d:\abcd, then picture.png must be in d:\abcd\subdir.
The easy way : build your stand-alone application in the same directory as the MFA file.
Is this stuff automatic? I mean, lets say I get it to play an MP3 file using an extension, would it automatically build that MP3 file into the EXE now that it's in the event editor? Or does this only work using MMF's default abilities?
That depends on what you use to play your MP3 file and what options you select in MMF2.
If you use an expression like Apppath$ + "yourfile.mp3" to play the file, it won't be included, unless you add it to the Binary Data tab in the Data editor.
If you use an expression that displays a file selector, or if the filename is mentioned in the properties of an object, it will be included in the EXE either if you select the "Include external files" option, or if you add it to the Binary Data tab in the Data editor.
PS: I think the Include External Files option is not compatible with files you add in the Binary Data tab.
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