BUG: standalone modifing itself!?

[Andre Garzia]

Hi Folks,

This is the strangest of the bugs... First I am using rev 2.2 on MacOS 
X 10.3.4 with a nice Studio License.

I implemented a complete Blogger API client this afternoon, it's a 
remake of my old iBlog tool (http://iblog.soapdog.org). I did 
everything from the scratch since old codebase was RB based.

It's a simple stack, it just uses some simple GET and POST commands to 
interface to Blogger API. The stack saves it's configuration to a text 
file named "iBlog 9 prefs", this file is stored inside the application 
folder. The stack makes use of revXML lib.

First bug was, the standalone simply fails on Mac Classic and Win32... 
it does not connect to the internet, every handler returns empty. In 
MacOS X it works fine. I also noticed that in Classic and Win32 
standalones, the prefs files is not being created. Then I started 
debugging it... now I came to the strangest of the scenarios. the MacOS 
X standalone is not creating the file either... but it's saving the 
configuration somehow. The configuration is saved to a text file, and 
loaded in the openStack handler. How can the stack load a non existant 
file?

It's not on the trash either... it's just not there. the prefs file is 
hard coded with this funcs:

function prefsDir
   set the itemDelimiter to "/"
   get item 1 to -2 of the effective filename of this stack
   set the defaultFolder to it
   return it & "/"
end prefsDir


function savePrefs pFile, pArray
   -- Save a pref file as a combined array.
   combine pArray by "=" and "&"
   put "file:/" & prefsDir() & pFile into tPath
   put pArray into URL tPath
end savePrefs

function loadPrefs pFile
   -- Load a prefs file as a combined array
   put "file:/" & prefsDir() & pFile into tPath
   get URL tPath
   return it
end loadPrefs

I can quit the app and relaunch it, It reads the configuration, but 
there's no configuration file... I used sherlock, finder, every search 
utilitie I could find, there's no "iBlog 9 Prefs" on the computer... 
Can standalones modify themselves, I know mac classic can, but, didn't 
rev team enforced a policy on no-standalone-messing...

Also does anyone here got any trouble with LibURL in Win32?

Is my revolution possessed by evil spirits? Was the premonition 
external shipped with Rev 2.2?
-- 
Andre Alves Garzia ð 2004 ð BRAZIL
http://studio.soapdog.org