L.D wrote:
>Sometimes I wonder why I bother to beta test or honestly report problems
>with supposedly stable versions. Maybe I'm a masochist at times. But
>whatever my reason is, it is *not* to provide an excuse for others to be
>abusive or accusatory.
I'm sorry if you feel that way.
>With a little less doubt on your part -- i.e. it's got to be L.D.'s
>fault -- and a few seconds of thought, you would have known precisely
>what I attempted to do, and what I used in the attempt ...
Nope. Thanks to this mail I know do.
>Whatever the direction of the slash, I used it correctly when I
>attempted to include the command to insert the images. As to what that
>command is, look at the toolbar for load_images, or ins or whatever and
>you'll find the definition for one of the hotkeys.
You mean:
VI9 SMALL8 KEY 20992 Load_images Ins
Obviously you have missunderstood it. This is what the above means:
For location VI9 (Vertical, Internet, location 9 IIRC) use the file
SMALL8.IKN and the key with keycode 20992 (Ins) display the text "Load
images" And present Ins as the key to use.
This syntax is *only* legal in this file. You can not use 20992, Ins,
Load_images or anything else in mime.cfg and hope that it will have the
desired efect. You *will* have undesired side-effects. I admit the one you
had is strange (and that was why I asked about any ins.bat file) but no
matter how rude I am the fault is still yours.
>I figured that if core.exe could remap the key to do a specific thing,
>there was a good chance that core.exe would recognize the function of
>'insert/load images' if it appeared somewhere else.
Nope, it's done in two completly diffrent places (guievent.c and mime.c in
case you are interested - but I didn't need the source to solve this one).
>At worst, I figured it simply wouldn't work and I'd have to reboot and
>delete the guilty line and uncomment the original. I certainly didn't
>think it was possible for *anything* in Arachne to totally delete every
>file in the main directory including itself!!!
Have you checked to see what clr.bat does? If you send incorrect data to it
it might do something like this.
>As for your personal wish to not reload images automatically because it
>takes more time, so what? I want any images reloaded to the page when
>it is reloaded after clearing cache, and having MIME.CFG do it is faster
>than waiting for the entire page to be downloaded and rendered and
>*then* hitting a key to start downloading images and waiting for the
>whole thing to render yet again. That's my preference, and shouldn't
>mean that the problem is of no consequence because your preference is
>different.
No, no, no. I assume you refer to my other post(s) regarding this. IMHO
Arachne should reload the images again (if image loading is turned on).
However since that will take more time the current way Arachne does it is
the best we can do (as a reply to Neil IIRC that wanted Arachne to do it
faster *and* load the images).
>If you don't understand something, or want more detail you can't acquire
>on your own, you should consider asking for it nicely instead of being
>nasty and trying to blame the problem on something else wrong that the
>individual did and isn't telling you about. It's amazing how much
>further you can get being polite than being accusatory.
I started this out with:
Perhaps I'm just tired, but I wasn't aware that you could give Arachne
such a command in either a bat file or in mime.cfg. Exactly what did you
write and where did you write it?
You didn't write what you did up until this mail, obviously it didn't help
to be polite ;-)
I think it's good that users try out things, but they shouldn't assume that
it's the programs fault if things go wrong. By the same token if I were to
misstakenly write "format c: /u/q" (IIRC that's the worst one) when I
wanted to format a floppy then it isn't formats fault, it's a typo from my
side. Of course I could blaim format from having the switches that doesn't
ask the questions if I really want to format the disk, but I was the one
who made the error (besides there are programs that can interfer with
formatting harddrives if I had one loaded).
