Standalone Application creation for beginners

hughcrewdson's icon

Hello,
sorry to be so clueless but i am stuck getting anywhere with creating a standalone application.
I have read the help file but have got no further with it. What is needed for a collective and what are the option buttons in the Build Collective/Application window. whats a toplevel patcher etc?

thanks in advance,

h

hughcrewdson's icon

hi,
thanks for the advice. I have managed to create a standalone but was wondering if you could tell me hoe to create a standalone application for use without the need for maxruntime?

thanks,
hugh

Peter Castine's icon

After you hit the Build button, in the standard Save As... dialog there is a popup menu at the bottom labeled Format. Take a look at the second item in the menu.

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Wait a second... what exactly is it that you are asking?

If you build a Standalone (as opposed to a Collective), you can distribute to anyone and they don't need to have Max or Max Runtime installed. The Max Runtime is embedded into the Standalone's bundle.

If you build a Collective, there is no embedded Max Runtime, so you need to have Max (or the Max Runtime) available on the machine.

stringtapper's icon

I'm finally needing to build a standalone for a small utility I made. For some reason the Max window is always included with the standalone. I've never seen this with other standalones I've used. How do I keep the Max window from opening in my standalone?

Thanks

D

David Beaudry's icon

it's an option for the standalone object.
David

stringtapper's icon

David Beaudry wrote on Sun, 01 March 2009 15:29it's an option for the standalone object.
David

Ah thanks!

So [loadbang] connected to a [statusvisible 0] message connected to [standalone] takes care of it.

Luke Hall's icon

You don't need the [loadbang]. You can just open the [standalone] inspector and change the attribute then save your patch.

lh

stringtapper's icon

Hehe, oops.

Good to know there's more than one way to do it though!