Is there a way to save data within a built standalone app? The coll object allows for writing a file but not for defining a path and will write a text file to the folder containing the standalone. i would like to write to a file within the standalone app/folder.
In a standalone this should report where the runtime version of max is, in the package you have built to be your application (on mac at least). You can then use [sprintf] to format a specific name and location to send to [coll].
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It appears to report the location of the standalone and not the runtime within the standalone. Formatting the standalone-name as folder in sprintf doesn’t work and results in the file being written beside the standalone. It would be nice if i could write to a file within the standalone(contents). I’d prefer not to write a pref file somewhere else and keep everything contained within the app.
or is this impossible?
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That might have been the problem, generally Contents/support is where you want to bundle all the related bits that go with your app, even making your own subfolders inside "support" is not a problem. If you want to allow users to add their own folders then look at [filepath] which can temporarily add folders to you app’s search path.
