Of course, I had tested saving with my menu command, but running in the IDE. Now that I test it with my Dreamcard player, I discover it doesn't work.
My menu command is: save stack "Directory" as the filename of this stack
Again, this functions correctly in the IDE, but not under Dreamcard. ...
Alex Tweedly kindly replied:
Two possibilities :
1. Make sure the Player is not in "secure" mode (which prevents it from writing files or accessing the network). [ Click on the Rev icon at top right, and set the checkbox for "Run in non-secure mode" ]
Yes, that was it. When I bring up Dreamcard Player, the RevOnline browser appears, and sure enough there is a Rev icon at the top right, with no rollover message nor any indication that it is a button, or that it actually has nothing to do with RevOnline, but is actually your access to the Preferences for the Player application! Jeezy Peezy! I checked the "Run in insecure mode" checkbox, quit and restarted, and now my little stack saves correctly in the player.
Thanks for telling me about this, Alex. I just spent a frustrating hour looking for this information: at the Dreamcard homepage there is nothing but marketing-speak -- "Do anything!". At RevOnline, I don't see the Learning Center in my channels (?!) so I didn't check there. I reread the readme files in my Rev 2.5 distribution for info about Dreamcard -- "Straight out of the box, Dreamcard provides the features of a word processor, a presentation tool, a simple spreadsheet...". And finally I looked again in the Rev documentation -- in Topics, Dictionary, and FAQ you can only get "dre" into the filter box before you get the annoying "nothing matches" dialog. Sigh and double-sigh.
2. There is a bug (Bugzilla 2294) by which stacks run in Dreamcard Player do not have a "home" directory, so expressions such as the filename of this stack do not produce the correct answer....
Thanks for the warning about this!
I've just had a quick look through the bugs which mention Dreamcard or
Player, and while I might have missed some, I don't see anything else
likely to cause different behaviour between the same stack in Player vs Rev.
Thanks so much for your help Alex. By the way, where is the info about secure mode?
Jim Lyons
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