[Pipmak-Users] Re: User-Section for (links to) Pipmak Projects

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

hOSHI wrote:
> Yes,
> that is exactly what i meant :)
> a users section, ...
> I think i'm going to put my project online soon.

Looking forward to it :) Announce it here, and I'll add a 
projects/links/examples/whatever section with a link and maybe a 
screenshot or something.

> maybe pipmak's own forum directly on the page.

That's what we have the mailing lists/newsgroups for?

> .... but what about standalone executable pipmak applications?

That's what the "2.3 How Pipmak Finds Projects" section in the manual 
would explain, had I written it yet :).

When Pipmak is started without the user specifying a project to open (by 
doubleclicking it in the Finder or Explorer, or naming it on the command 
line), it looks for files or folders with names ending in ".pipmak" in 
the following places, in that order:

o Pipmak's own resources folder/archive. On Mac OS X, that's the folder 
Pipmak.app/Contents/Resources/, on Windows the ZIP archive "Pipmak 
Resources" next to the application, and on Linux the ZIP archive 
"pipmak-resources" next to the application.

o The folder that contains the Pipmak application.

o All mounted CDs (currently not on Windows, see To Do.txt - bug me 
about it if that's a problem for you).

Pipmak then tries to open the first such file or folder found. If none 
is found, or if the first one found is not a proper Pipmak project, it 
displays the usual main menu instead.

So, to make a standalone project, you'd put your project into the 
resources folder or archive, or if you want one package that includes 
applications for all platforms, place it next to the applications.

It just occurs to me that I could simplify that process by offering a 
download containing the applications for all four platforms. In 
particular, non-Mac-OS-X users will probably have problems getting 
Pipmak for Mac OS X out of the disk image file...

  -Christian