2.1.1 better and reliable ... but

[Carsten Levin]

Yes, to my best knowledge you will be effected ... but "only" on  
Windows. On the Mac ... no problem. And you will have no problems when  
starting up in developer mode.

On 2/11-2003, at 23.13, Alex Rice wrote:

>
> On Nov 2, 2003, at 4:27 AM, Carsten Levin wrote:
>
>> Yes, it is in Bugzilla, we reported it apx. 3 weeks ago, later got a  
>> response that it is solved (but the solution is probably not in the  
>> present download).
>> You write that you dont understand the problem ...:
>> "the directory"/"the defaultfolder"/"the current folder" (i dont know  
>> why there are so many words for the same) is usually set to the path  
>> of the Revolution Application or the Revolution Runtime/exe file  
>> running the application.
>> It is always the case on Mac OS.
>> On Windows XP it is so, but only when running in development-mode.  
>> When running in non-dev mode it is different. When doubleclicking the  
>> name.rev file it is set to the path to this file. On Windows 98 it is  
>> in come cases set to C:/.
>> Sorry for not explaining this better in the first mail.
>> This inconsistense/bug causes the solutions to fail if you have  
>> desided to put some common libraries or graphics file in the folder  
>> containing the Revolution application or runtime.
>> You should probably see it as a problem when a development tool  
>> starts to use its fundamental parts in random.
>>
>> But as I wrote in the first report ... I am confident that RunRev  
>> knows about this and that it will be solved soon.
>>
>
> It does not appear to be fixed yet. I wouldn't be so confident until  
> it's marked fixed in bugzilla.
>
> <http://runrev.com/revolution/developers/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi? 
> id=793>
>
>
> This is the command I have been using on startup to resolve the  
> defaultFolder. Can anyone tell me if this bug 793 is going to effect  
> me?
>
> --
> -- fixDefaultFolder
> --
> on fixDefaultFolder
>   put the fileName of this stack into tFileName
>   set the itemDelimiter to "/"
>   get item 1 to -2 of tFileName
>   set the defaultFolder to it
> end fixDefaultFolder
>
>
> Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com> | Mindlube Software |  
> <http://mindlube.com>
>
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>
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