standalone modifing itself!?

[Monte Goulding]

Look inside your application package.

>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
>
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