So it's a security issue.
A slightly safer rebol but not so easy to use.
Maybe the desktop solves it all.
Yes, hack-launch still works. Interesting but not recomended.
// Ricky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Volker Nitsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:51 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: No launch
> but >From: "Ricky Sandblom"
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> "Launch" don't work when the script is started from an icon.
> >> It is used in the demo100.r script.
> >> Maybe it's a known "bug" since you have to start the demo from a
> console.
> >>
> >> // Ricky
> >
> >Looking at your email headers, it appears as though you are using
> Windows.
> >I use Win98 and when I click on the actual file name, the script runs
> >correctly. Are you referring to the same thing when you say "from an
> icon"?
> >--Scott Jones
> >
>
> maybe i understand your problem wrong -
> your "start from an icon" is clicking on an rebol-script which starts
> rebol?
> in the betas launch is disabled if rebol is startet with a script as
> argument.
> this is for the beta-testpanel, where the demo counld launch other
> scripts,
> but the scripts itself could not launch.
> rebol-designers where very sceptical in allowing rebol-scripts to start
> other rebols.
> launch was a workaround to enable starting scripts without security-
> risks.
> (the very first launch was able to pass "-s" to a launched script,
> setting its security
> to none.. so it was disabled for launched scripts.)
> in 1.0 the testpanel is dropped for a while and the old launch-behavior
> keept.
> BTW you can hack it as "%user.r -owner".
> if you do [hack-launch: :launch] in %user.r you should have a working
> launch in 'hack-launch
> (at least when i tried it some month ago).
> if you dont keep it, there is no way to get launch back for a script of
> course (AFAIK:).
> but if you should do..?
>
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