revlet and path

[Phil Jimmieson]

It seems that a number of system "globals" don't have values in revlets.
I tried a small program to display the following:

defaultfolder
platform
systemversion
environment

All of which seem to be empty in a revlet.

On 6 Aug 2009, at 14:29, Tereza Snyder wrote:

>
> On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> Yves COPPE wrote:
>>> Here is a very simple script :
>>> on mouseUp
>>>    put empty into fld "resultat"
>>>   set itemDel to "/"
>>>   put item 1 to -2 of the effective fileName of this stack into
>>> tPath
>>>   set itemDel to comma
>>>   put tPath into fld "resultat"
>>> end mouseUp
>>> In the IDE, it gives the right path
>>> when I build a revlet, put it on my server and open it with Safari,
>>> it  gives ... nothing ! fld "resultat" stays empty
>>> Any idea ?
>>
>> The stack file on your server isn't the one that's running.  Like
>> web pages, what the browser gets is a downloaded copy of the stack
>> file. This copy lives in RAM, so its fileName will be empty.
>
> It sounds like this means that I can't reliably reference files—like
> external stacks or configuration files—'next to' my revlet on the
> server. Is this true? How about the value of 'the directory' or
> 'default folder'? How about referenced images?
>
> I routinely store application resources in a folder, 'resources', next
> to my apps that contain all kinds of stuff. I compute paths at startup
> depending on the effective filename. Do I have to change my
> architecture?
>
>
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> Tereza Snyder
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