Hi Richard,
First, congratulations on RevJournal :-)
It becomes again a key site for all Rev developers.
BTW as I was in touch with Alan Beatie, I suggested him to update the
RevJournal mention on the Runrev website (http://support.runrev.com/
resources/useful_sites.php)
Second, I am a kind man ;-)
I did not think of competing scripting products... made with Rev!
Tha'ts a good reason enough since there are many other ways to solve
the issue.
My approach was more ethical than pragmatic...
Best Regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
Le 17 juin 05 à 09:48, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
Eric Chatonet wrote:
Reminder from the docs:
When using a standalone application, an object's script property
may not be set to a string containing more than ten statements.
This limit is set by line 1 of the scriptLimits function. (This
does not limit scripts that are already written: standalone
applications can run scripts of any length. However, if the
standalone attempts to change an object's script property, and
the script contains more than the allowable number of statements,
the attempt to set the script causes an error.)
I consider that, even there are many possible workarounds, this
"feature" stays rather unacceptable:
Does an enterprise licence ($900) has to work as a DreamCard
evaluation version?
The scriptLimits property was put in by Scott Raney long before
RunRev acquired it. It was added to prevent the ease with which
someone could create a competing scripting product (I've seen this
before with other xTalks).
It may seem onerous at first, but as was the case with the poster
who started this thread it's truly very rare that there is a need
for self-modifying Transcript. Used well, the message path usually
provides a more efficient form of what's desired.
In the rare cases when there may some benefit from self-modifying
code, it often turns out that the more traditional "genetic
algorithm" approach of abstractifying behaviors through data often
serves that small subset well.
And in the rarer case where one truly needs to use self-modifying
Transcript, my understanding is that Kevin's willing to review
things on a case-by-case basis to see what can be done.
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