Where to put audio files when Exporting Application for Mac OSX?

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Where to put audio files when Exporting Application for Mac OSX?

in Integration and Hardware • 1 year ago

I am working on a Mac and trying to export my application for use on a Mac. I have two small audio files that I access in my application, but those files do not get copied over into the application.macosx folder.

When I am running the application on my computer, I can copy the audio files into the application.macosx folder and the application works. If I do not copy the audio files into the application.macosx folder, the application will not fully launch.

I am looking for a way to include these audio files so I only have to send the use the application file. I do not want to send them the application.macosx folder. I have tried adding the audio files to every location inside the "application package", but nothing has worked.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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maleo

Re: Where to put audio files when Exporting Application for Mac OSX?

1 year ago

if you use the current alpha version (2.0a5) of processing you can put your files into a folder named "data" inside your sketch folder and it will be copied into your .app-bundle on export.

in your sketch use dataPath("file.ext") to reference these files. this will give you the correct path regardless of running the sketch from the PDE or the exported app.

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