deleting Macintel desktop aliases
The good news: it will work the good ol' MC way ;-) ... if there is a folder theFile then delete theFile end if ... Apparently Macintel desktop aliases are cranky buggers to delete. I have tried every combo I can think of in MC. delete folder theFile # if there is a folder theFile delete file theFile # if there is a file theFile delete theFile # if there is a folder theFile, if there is a file theFile The only thing that had worked is the revDeleteFolder, and apparently it doesn't work in MC or an MC standalone. It worked perfectly in Rev. As for revXXX things... I still do not understand. The engine is the same regardless, right? The only difference between Rev 2.7 and MC 2.7 is the IDE, the user interface. So there must be libraries or stacks that contain the special revXXX items, that I could add to my stack to make them work? Shari -- Gypsy King Software Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: deleting Macintel desktop aliases
On 9/4/06 5:26 PM, Shari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for revXXX things... I still do not understand. The engine is the same regardless, right? The only difference between Rev 2.7 and MC 2.7 is the IDE, the user interface. So there must be libraries or stacks that contain the special revXXX items, that I could add to my stack to make them work? Yes, there are rev libraries you could work with (revDeleteFolder is in the script of btn RevCommon of group RevLibraries of the first card of the stack file revlibrary.rev in the Toolset folder) , or you could copy the code you need from the Rev library (for example, 'revDeleteFolder' is in the revCommon backscript (open the message box in Rev, click on the Backscripts button). Alternatively you could try my stsDeleteFolder command (plus the stsFormatPath function if you need Windows functionality) to see if that works for you: on stsDeleteFolder pFolder -- WARNING: THIS DELETES A FOLDER AND ALL THE FILES IT CONTAINS... USE WITH CAUTION! switch (the platform) case MacOS if isOSX() then get shell(rm -rf q(pFolder)) else -- TBD for OS 9 end if break case Win32 if char 1 of word 2 of the systemVersion = 5 then get shell (rmdir /s /q q(stsFormatPath(pFolder,Win32))) else get shell (deltree /Y q(stsFormatPath(pFolder,Win32))) end if break end switch end stsDeleteFolder function q pWhat return quote pWhat quote end q function isOSX set the itemDel to . return (item 1 of the systemVersion =10) end isOSX function stsFormatPath pPath,pPlatform -- assumes a full /-delimited path switch pPlatform case MacOSX case Unix put \ space quote '`!;()[]?#$^*= into tSpecialChars repeat for each char tChar in tSpecialChars replace tChar with (\ tChar) in pPath end repeat break case Win32 set the itemDel to / put item -1 of pPath into tFile put \/:*? quote | into tSpecialChars repeat for each char tChar in tSpecialChars replace tChar with (-) in tFile end repeat put tFile into item -1 of pPath replace / with \ in pPath break end switch return pPath end stsFormatPath Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: deleting Macintel desktop aliases
Yes, there are rev libraries you could work with (revDeleteFolder is in the script of btn RevCommon of group RevLibraries of the first card of the stack file revlibrary.rev in the Toolset folder) , or you could copy the code you need from the Rev library (for example, 'revDeleteFolder' is in the revCommon backscript (open the message box in Rev, click on the Backscripts button). Ken, I am definitely going to try your stsDeleteFolder solution first :-) But I do have another question about these special revThings. Or maybe just an observation. Similar to needing the libUrl stack if there are any internet type handlers, if there are any revXXX functions, special stacks will always need to be included in the build. Is this correct? Shari -- Gypsy King Software Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: deleting Macintel desktop aliases
Ken, Your stsDeleteFolder works perfectly! Thank you! I think that is the last piece for making things happy on Macintel. Gee, I feel like I just went thru this for OSX... doesn't seem that long ago. I don't suppose you could recommend a book or manual that gives an easy to understand listing of the shell commands available for OSX? I know I've got others in the code that folks have shared. They seem to be pretty useful entities. I know that my createAlias handler uses them... Now the deleteAlias handler will, too :-D Question: What does sts stand for? Shari -- Gypsy King Software Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: deleting Macintel desktop aliases
Shari wrote: As for revXXX things... I still do not understand. The engine is the same regardless, right? The only difference between Rev 2.7 and MC 2.7 is the IDE, the user interface. So there must be libraries or stacks that contain the special revXXX items, that I could add to my stack to make them work? All commands starting with rev are part of a set of libraries that are embedded in the Revolution IDE. They will all work fine in the IDE, as you found, but you must include those libraries when you build a standalone. If you tell the standalone builder to include the libraries, it puts them in during the build process. One of the things the SB looks for when it does an auto-scan for resources are any of those rev commands. If you have turned off search for inclusions and are doing inclusions manually, then you need to specify in the standalone settings which libraries you want included. The revDeleteFolder command is in the common library, and I believe that one always gets included in all standalones (you don't have to specially indicate it, and it isn't in the SB inclusion list.) But you do have to use the Rev standalone builder to get it into the standalone. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: deleting Macintel desktop aliases
On 9/4/06 9:39 PM, Shari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: What does sts stand for? Sons of Thunder Software :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: deleting Macintel desktop aliases
Shari wrote: But I do have another question about these special revThings. Or maybe just an observation. Similar to needing the libUrl stack if there are any internet type handlers, if there are any revXXX functions, special stacks will always need to be included in the build. Is this correct? The Rev documentation usually indicates at the bottom of each rev command which library it requires. You can check there. The libraries are not stored in the IDE in stacks; usually they're in buttons. As Ken pointed out, you can go digging and find the scripts but it is far easier to just use the standalone builder interface. You didn't say why you couldn't build using that, but if you still have embedded ask/answer dialogs in your stacks, I'm betting that's the reason. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: deleting Macintel desktop aliases
On 9/4/06 9:57 PM, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Ken pointed out, you can go digging and find the scripts but it is far easier to just use the standalone builder interface. For some things, perhaps, but there's too many idiosyncracies with Rev's standalone builder that make it annoying for me to use (things like having to close and reopen the stack I'm building a standalone out of, the inability to build a standalone in the same location as your source file so you can easily test your app, etc.) I find MC's standalone builder much cleaner for this kind of thing - but if one wants to bundle in Rev libraries, it is much easier to do that with the Rev standalone builder. To each their own! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: deleting Macintel desktop aliases
Question: What does sts stand for? Sons of Thunder Software :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Oh... NOW I feel silly! LOL! :-D -- Gypsy King Software Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: deleting Macintel desktop aliases
As Ken pointed out, you can go digging and find the scripts but it is far easier to just use the standalone builder interface. You didn't say why you couldn't build using that, but if you still have embedded ask/answer dialogs in your stacks, I'm betting that's the reason. Jacque, You are correct. I hope it was a big bet :-) I'm about two years behind schedule with the adventure game. I've diverted a lot of time to updates of existing projects, and new small projects. My New Year's Resolution last year was to devote 95% of 2006 to the adventure game. Guess what didn't happen? I spent 95% of 2006 updating existing projects. So... the existing projects aren't going to get dissected again unless it's to squash bugs :-) not IDE related bugs... :-) If it ain't broke... Shari -- Gypsy King Software Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
