Re-2: Alt-things re-uploaded, more

[runrev260805 at m-r-d.de]

Hi,

the SQLite3Demo-1.rev is not the external.
You have to run the SQLLite3Demo-1.rev. From that app you can update/install the external and run the demo. This apps downloads the external from runrev and puts it into the folder "Database Drivers" within the folder "externals.




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Alt-things re-uploaded, more (27-Jan-2007 9:31)
From:    Peter Alcibiades <palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk>
To:      runrev260805 at m-r-d.de

> OK,  did all this to the best of my ability.
> 
> 1)  Put the downloaded file into an Externals folder in the top level Rev 
> folder.  The file is SQLite3Demo-1.rev.  Is this what it should be?  Its 
> what 
> there was to download.
> 
> 2)  Start up Rev, new mainstack.
> 
> 3)  set externals of the stack to the file in one of two ways, either in 
> the 
> message box by command, or using the stack properties inspector browsing to 
> 
> the location.  Result is the same.  For completeness the command used was
> 
> set the external of this stack 
> to /home/peter/Desktop/Revolution-2.6.1/SQLite3Demo-1.rev
> 
> but the other way using the properties inspector was just to navigate to it 
> 
> and click on it and open.
> 
> 4)  Save the stack
> 
> 5) Close it and purge from memory
> 
> 6) Re-open it.
> 
> There is a perceptible delay on opening.  About 4 or 5 seconds.  After 
> which 
> the stack opens just as it did when first created.  Subsequent openings do 
> not have this delay.
> 
> 7)  Check in the stack properties inspector.  Yes, the external file is 
> still 
> selected.
> 
> 8) Try, using the multiline message box
> 
> get the externalCommands of this stack
> put it
> 
> (also tried it with functions and packages)
> 
> Nothing.
> 
> Presumably at some point there should be an opportunity to use the name and 
> 
> password Rev supplies on the download site?  At one point in all the 
> googling 
> to try to make this work, I came on a demo screen.  Presumably at some 
> point 
> this should come up.  How?
> 
> I am sorry to plague the list with what may be very elementary queries.  
> However, the zero documentation policy leaves one no other place to turn.  
> It 
> cannot be sensible.   I also still do wonder whether anyone has ever made 
> this stuff work on Linux.  There was no reply to the question last time, 
> which was interesting.
> 
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday 26 January 2007 19:06, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> > The generic instructions for working with externals:
> >
> > 1. Open the stack that will use the external. Set its externals property
> > to the relative path of the external file on disk:
> >
> >    set the externals of this stack to "/path/to/external/file"
> >
> > 2. Save the stack. Close the stack and remove it from memory. This is
> > the important step.
> >
> > 3. Reopen the stack. If your path is correct, the external will load.
> > Now you can use it in scripts.
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