Re: Get URL anomaly

[Bob Sneidar via use-livecode]

Lately I've found that to be iffy. I just manually select what I know I need. 

Bob S


> On Mar 6, 2018, at 06:56 , Graham Samuel via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi Charles - thanks for your help. I immediately tried your modification (use 
> ‘put’ and avoid the variable ‘it’) but it made no difference. However, I 
> think I have solved the problem:
> 
> I was relying on the Standalone Application Settings option ’search for 
> required inclusions’. 

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Re: Get URL anomaly

[J. Landman Gay via use-livecode]

On 3/6/18 4:08 PM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:

since TSNet is an enforced presence on all commercial versions of LC, I wonder 
why libURL isn’t automatically included even in apps that don’t appear to be 
using internet access.


That seems entirely reasonable, you might want to write that up in the 
QCC. The omission may have just been an oversight.


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Re: Get URL anomaly

[Graham Samuel via use-livecode]

Thanks Jacque - since TSNet is an enforced presence on all commercial versions 
of LC, I wonder why libURL isn’t automatically included even in apps that don’t 
appear to be using internet access. It’s a gotcha that is likely to bother 
people apart from me, IMHO. Maybe ‘search for inclusions’ should be deprecated.

Anyway thanks for the explanation.

Graham

> On 6 Mar 2018, at 22:30, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> On 3/6/18 8:56 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
>> I was relying on the Standalone Application Settings option ’search for 
>> required inclusions’.
> 
> I always use manual inclusions for that reason. As soon as I add a feature to 
> a project I also add it to the inclusions so I won't forget.
> 
> TSNet piggybacks on libURL ("internet") so that's why they're both necessary.
> 
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Re: Get URL anomaly

[J. Landman Gay via use-livecode]

On 3/6/18 8:56 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:

I was relying on the Standalone Application Settings option ’search for 
required inclusions’.


I always use manual inclusions for that reason. As soon as I add a 
feature to a project I also add it to the inclusions so I won't forget.


TSNet piggybacks on libURL ("internet") so that's why they're both 
necessary.


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Re: Get URL anomaly

[Graham Samuel via use-livecode]

Hi Charles - thanks for your help. I immediately tried your modification (use 
‘put’ and avoid the variable ‘it’) but it made no difference. However, I think 
I have solved the problem: 

I was relying on the Standalone Application Settings option ’search for 
required inclusions’. This did however not include something called ‘internet’, 
which presumably is not tsNet but something else. Anyway when I chose that 
option, the behaviour in the IDE and the standalone suddenly appeared the same. 
I don’t know why it worked in some simpler standalones used for testing - 
perhaps the LC search for inclusions was confused by something in my real app 
and not in the simpler ones. Without this inclusion, the ‘put’ (or ‘get’) 
apparently works - nothing in ‘the result’ - but no data is transferred. With 
the inclusion, data is transferred as expected.

If I can, I will report this as a bug, but it’s going to be tricky to 
demonstrate it in its original context.

If anyone else is reading this, have you had any negative experience with the 
‘search for required inclusions’ feature of the LC Standalone settings?

Thanks again

Graham

> On 6 Mar 2018, at 08:50, Charles Warwick via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi Graham,
> 
> 
>> On 5 Mar 2018, at 10:56 pm, Graham Samuel via use-livecode 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> As in some of my previous mails, I’m talking about having to retrieve a tiny 
>> text file from a server (and later put a modified version of it back, but 
>> let’s get one problem solved at a time) The whole thing is just a few lines 
>> of code:
>> 
>> constant myFileOnTheServer = "www.myserver.comm/mytextfile.txt”
>> 
>> put “http://“ & myFileOnTheServer into t1
>> 
>> get URL t1
>> 
>> if the result is empty then
>> 
>>   do stuff with ‘it’, where the text file is placed
>> 
>>  …
> 
> I would recommend using:
> 
> put URL t1 into tData
> 
> The contents of ‘it’ can be changed by other commands, so if you are having 
> issues in a more complex app, maybe something else is overwriting that value?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Charles
> 
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Re: Get URL anomaly

[Charles Warwick via use-livecode]

Hi Graham,


> On 5 Mar 2018, at 10:56 pm, Graham Samuel via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> As in some of my previous mails, I’m talking about having to retrieve a tiny 
> text file from a server (and later put a modified version of it back, but 
> let’s get one problem solved at a time) The whole thing is just a few lines 
> of code:
> 
> constant myFileOnTheServer = "www.myserver.comm/mytextfile.txt”
> 
> put “http://“ & myFileOnTheServer into t1
> 
> get URL t1
> 
> if the result is empty then
> 
>do stuff with ‘it’, where the text file is placed
> 
>   …

I would recommend using:

put URL t1 into tData

The contents of ‘it’ can be changed by other commands, so if you are having 
issues in a more complex app, maybe something else is overwriting that value?

Cheers,

Charles

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