(oh god, first time on a mailing list, *everything* could go wrong!)
Hi,
I need to url encode and html escape Strings for two apps that I am
working on, an aMSN/Mercury Chatlog viewer and chatlog2html converter
(I have to send my chatlogs to a friend every month or she kills me by
pouting intensivly) and a Twitter search app, so I wrote: require 'cgi'
The trouble is, Shoes tells me: no such file to load -- cgi
It doesn't matter if I put the require statement inside or outside the
Shoes.app block, it doesn't work anywhere. I tried that because
functions seem to work only when they are inside the Shoes.app block.
I'm sure there's an obvious reason for why that is, but I have a
talent for not seeing the obvious.
I'm using Shoes r751 on Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard on an Intel Mac by the
way. I can try it on a PPC Mac too if this error is not known and more
info is needed.
I searched the mailing list archives for "require cgi" and found
someone else who had this problem in May 2008, he said it was fixed
in the repository for him, but I believe r751 which I use should
already have the fix in it if it was fixed that long ago, so it
doesn't seem to be fixed. I tried to build Shoes then from the git
repository to see if it is fixed now. Didn't work though, like the
warning on the Shoes website about building Shoes yourself already
fortold.
I tried to build Shoes with the pre-built dependencies package, but it
is missing the Pixman library as far as I could tell (the compiler log
told me so and I couldn't find the library in the deps package when I
looked for it), so the build stopped there. I then tried to do it
without the deps by installing some things with MacPorts on my own,
but that didn't work either, I'm sure I missed some dependencies or
something, or I have to tell the compiler where I installed the stuff
(and I don't know anything about compiling, I'm used to IDEs doing
that kind of stuff for me automagically).
So, my question is, is this a known bug - and is there a way around
this? Some evil trick I am not aware of that I could use for the time
being to get access to the methods in cgi? For the Twitter search app
I just used gsub to replace some stuff myself, but the Chatlog viewer/
converter needs to convert a lot of special characters to html, so
doing that manually would mean writing a fairly large chunk of code (I
think).
--
Chris
