Dan Nigrin

I want to be able to launch a pdf that I will bundle with my Max 

standalone application. I will include the pdf within the Mac 

application bundle, or within the "support" folder next to the 

I wanted to use the following message to max:

; max launchbrowser file:///path/to/my/file/foo.pdf

This works fine when I can reliably get the path to the file. But 

how do I generate the correct path when considering my standalone? 

Is there a way to know the path to my standalone itself?

I have a feeling I'm missing something very obvious...

202 Hack / PC-1600 User / VSTi Host / OMS Convert / Jack OS X / Major 

I want to be able to launch a pdf that I will bundle with my Max 
standalone application.  I will include the pdf within the Mac 
application bundle, or within the "support" folder next to the 
Windows .exe.

This works fine when I can reliably get the path to the file.  But 
how do I generate the correct path when considering my standalone? 
Is there a way to know the path to my standalone itself?

Dan
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Dan Nigrin
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202 Hack / PC-1600 User / VSTi Host / OMS Convert / Jack OS X / Major 
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http://www.defectiverecords.com
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path-to-standalone-from-within-standalone

Last time I did this in max 4.6 the below worked for me. There may be other ways, or things may have changed. The sprintf added the name of my app and the folder I wanted. However, this won't work if the name of the apps been changed....

Does [path( -> [thispatcher] also work in standalones ?

Am 17.02.2009 um 00:20 schrieb Alex Harker:

I don't know what has changed in 5 either but in 4 you can use 

sendapppath, but use sprintf symout, or your app won't work with 

spaces in the path name (like sadly many maxbuild apps do). You might 

run into problems creating a "send max" object for you dynamic path, 

Am 17.02.2009 um 00:20 schrieb Alex Harker:
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I don't know what has changed in 5 either but in 4 you can use  
sendapppath, but use sprintf symout, or your app won't work with  
spaces in the path name (like sadly many maxbuild apps do). You might  
run into problems creating a "send max" object for you dynamic path,  
but I think forward works.

Thanks guys - sendapppath is what I was forgetting!

path to standalone from within standalone?