08-10-2011, 08:06 PM
So here's a question: with the game being distributed on the Mac App Store, I need it to be self-contained. Everything in one app. As such, this leaves the question of where the Custom Mansions folder should go.
I see several possibilities:
1) User must create Midnight Mansion HD Custom Mansions folder in the same parent folder that has the Midnight Mansion HD app. (This was *supposed* to be how beta 5 did it, but as brell discovered, it's broken. I can fix it easily.)
2) User control-clicks on Midnight Mansion HD, selects
Advantage: when you move your Midnight Mansion HD app around, the custom mansions come with it. Disadvantage: when you download and install a new version, you lose your custom mansions. Now that I think about this, I guess this isn't a good option.
3) Custom Mansions folder is located where all the other prefererences are, inside:
/home/Library/Application Support/ActionSoft/Midnight Mansion HD/
I guess Option #1 still sounds the best now that I write them all out.
Ideally the game would create the Midnight Mansion HD Custom Mansions folder upon launch, but the Mac App Store will reject my app if I do this. (They will reject anything that writes files to
I see several possibilities:
1) User must create Midnight Mansion HD Custom Mansions folder in the same parent folder that has the Midnight Mansion HD app. (This was *supposed* to be how beta 5 did it, but as brell discovered, it's broken. I can fix it easily.)
2) User control-clicks on Midnight Mansion HD, selects
Show package contents, and inside of /Contents there would be a Custom Mansions folder that users could place custom mansions inside.
Advantage: when you move your Midnight Mansion HD app around, the custom mansions come with it. Disadvantage: when you download and install a new version, you lose your custom mansions. Now that I think about this, I guess this isn't a good option.
3) Custom Mansions folder is located where all the other prefererences are, inside:
/home/Library/Application Support/ActionSoft/Midnight Mansion HD/
I guess Option #1 still sounds the best now that I write them all out.
Ideally the game would create the Midnight Mansion HD Custom Mansions folder upon launch, but the Mac App Store will reject my app if I do this. (They will reject anything that writes files to
unapprovedlocations on the disk.)

