standalone not launching in Mavericks

[Davidashe]

I have an app that works when run as a stand alone on 10.8 and works within LC on 10.9 but when I try to run the standalone on 10.9 the app icon jumps up and down in the dock for a long time and then stops but the app doesn't launch.
I have tried remaking the standalone with LC 6.1.2 still doesn't work on 10.9

Does anyone have any ideas on what is going on during the standalone launch that could be causing my problem?

Thanks

[Mark]

Hi,

This could be a permissions problem, but that's not very probable. You could try to do a chmod 755 though.

Do any of the scripts in the startUp, preOpenStack, preOpenCard, openCard, openStack and other handlers that run when the stack opens contain AppleScript code or a reference to a file on disk? Those would be the first issues I'd check.

What about unsigned apps? Does the security control panel allow for running unsigned apps?

Kind regards,

Mark

[Davidashe]

Thanks for the suggestions.
None were the cause of the problem.
Finally found the issue.
In the copyright notice field (in the stand alone settings) I had an ampersand. 10.8 (and lower) were happy with this; however, 10.9 rejected it as an error and it stopped the app from launching.
I changed the "&" to "and" and it works.
Strange bug, but now sorted (for me).
RunRev might want to implement a restriction on the Info.plist when creating a standalone, and strip out offending characters?

[Mark]

Hi,

That is really weird. The copyright field in the plist file accepts any UTF-8 string. If you really want to use an ampersand, just make your own plist from an earlier standalone, edit it and save it in UTFT-8 format.

It is good to know about this problem. I often use diacritics and special signs in the copyright field.

Kind regards,

Mark

[garthcat]

I found the same problem with the name of the standalone. Using an ampersand prevented the application from running under Mavericks.
So my time and expense billing software called Activity & Expense Tracker now has to be named just Activity Expense Tracker.

Best Regards, Garth

[FourthWorld]

Good to see you here, Garth. Did you file a bug report on that? If so, what's the RQCC #?

[garthcat]

Before I figured it out I wrote to support but never got a response. Oops, I just checked again and did get a not very helpful response. I will respond to that email. I have not filed a bug report.

I'm betting that all versions of Revolution/LiveCode have the same problem, and that this is a Mavericks issue.

[hangzhouharry]

Excellent Find. So glad that LC still works on the new OS!

[FourthWorld]

They probably won't know about the issue until it's been reported to the bug queue, so I just submitted a report on this:
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11394

Please feel free to submit any additional details there that may be helpful for the team to address this quickly.

Going forward, please consider submitting bug reports directly to the RQCC once a repeatable recipe has been identified.