Re: Exploring A Single File Deploy on Windows

2017-06-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I've got a really, really bad feeling about this... Bob S > On Jun 23, 2017, at 10:56 , Dan Friedman via use-livecode > wrote: > > I second this motion! PLEASE! We must have some way to work BEFORE the > eternals are loaded. Furthermore, we should be able

Re: Exploring A Single File Deploy on Windows

2017-06-23 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
I second this motion! PLEASE! We must have some way to work BEFORE the eternals are loaded. Furthermore, we should be able to define where the externals will be saved and loaded. Requiring that externals must be in the same directory as the exe is far to limiting! New DataGrids and fancy

Re: Exploring A Single File Deploy on Windows

2017-06-22 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-06-21 22:47, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Could you expand on this a little bit? StandaloneSaving/Saved are only sent during a build, so I'm not sure how I'd use those to intercept a startup message. Yes but they could be used at standalone building time (probably will

Re: Exploring A Single File Deploy on Windows

2017-06-21 Thread Mark Talluto via use-livecode
> On Jun 21, 2017, at 11:31 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > Since 8, standalones have loaded their externals on startup - so no script > runs before the standalone expects them to be where they should. One way to > resolve this is to send a

Re: Exploring A Single File Deploy on Windows

2017-06-21 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/21/17 1:31 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Since 8, standalones have loaded their externals on startup - so no script runs before the standalone expects them to be where they should. One way to resolve this is to send a message *before* the externals are bound, allowing the

Re: Exploring A Single File Deploy on Windows

2017-06-21 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-06-21 19:42, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: One of the things I liked about SuperCard was that Bill Appleton had written his own resource fork into his data file format. This allowed SC to store any number of data and even code (XCMDs and DFCNs) within the data fork, without

Re: Exploring A Single File Deploy on Windows

2017-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Dan Friedman wrote: > With LC 8.1 and later, we’re now using tsNet rather than libURL. > That’s fine. However, a Windows standalone that uses tsNet cannot > even launch unless tsNet.dll is in the same directory as the > standalone.exe. This makes deploying a single file on Windows >

Re: Exploring A Single File Deploy on Windows

2017-06-19 Thread Roger Eller via use-livecode
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Greetings… > > With LC 8.1 and later, we’re now using tsNet rather than libURL. That’s > fine. However, a Windows standalone that uses tsNet cannot even launch > unless tsNet.dll is in the

Exploring A Single File Deploy on Windows

2017-06-19 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Greetings… With LC 8.1 and later, we’re now using tsNet rather than libURL. That’s fine. However, a Windows standalone that uses tsNet cannot even launch unless tsNet.dll is in the same directory as the standalone.exe. This makes deploying a single file on Windows impossible. Which means