Can anybody HELP !!

camm29 at tesco.net camm29 at tesco.net
Tue Jan 20 09:58:09 EST 2009


Dave , Thanks for your suggestions.
Yes , it will build the standalone WITHOUT the standalone password.

Best Regards
Camm

---- Dave <dave at looktowindward.com> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> So, you made a Standalone with no Password set in Standalone settings  
> that uses the Answer Dialog?  If so, it looks like the culprit is the  
> answer dialog. Have you tried deleting all RunRev files Manually,  
> Restarting and re-installing RunRev?
> 
> Also if you could just write your own Answer Dialog, depending on how  
> many times and how complex the calls are to "answer", this may be  
> easy or very difficult to do.
> 
> One thing that I have done in most of my projects is to define a  
> number of low-level library functions to abstract the these kinds of  
> dialogs, for example for the simple "answer" dialog I use the  
> following template:
> 
> funciton UtilAnswerDialog theDialogString,theButtonList
> local myResult
> 
> if kUseRunRevDialogs = true then
> answer theDialogString with theButtonList
> set the result into myResult
> else
> --
> --  Do your own thing
> --
> end if
> 
> return myResult
> end UtilAnswerDialog
> 
> This would allow you to use either the inbuilt answer dialogs or roll  
> your own and switch between the dynamically.
> 
> All the Best
> Dave
> 
> On 20 Jan 2009, at 13:14, <camm29 at tesco.net> wrote:
> 
> > Dave , Malte , Mark
> > Thank you for the replies.
> >
> > Mark - I will send the stack , its just one answer from clicking a  
> > button.
> >
> > Malte - No .exe is made , its fails at the standalone "checking  
> > directories"stage
> > with an answer stack already in memory error message.Works fine in IDE
> >
> > Dave - At first this could be the case but I have just wrote a one  
> > line answer from button click with no pre-open etc and it still fails.
> >
> > Again only with Rev 3.0
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Steve
> >
> > ---- Dave <dave at looktowindward.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 20 Jan 2009, at 08:38, <camm29 at tesco.net> <camm29 at tesco.net>  
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sorry , we can all make mistakes , I missed the ANSWER bit !
> >>>
> >>> The problem ONLY happens when ANSWER is used in the script AND a
> >>> password is set in the Standalone settings.
> >>> Everything works fine in IDE
> >>>
> >>> I corrected some minor script errors as suggested which made no
> >>> differrence.
> >>>
> >>> Any script I use with ANSWER and PASSWORD SET in Standalone builds
> >>> 100% in older versions of Rev and always have.
> >>>
> >>> The same scripts ONLY fail to build in REV 3.0 on several different
> >>> Machines
> >>>
> >>> It does happen ! hopefully someone understands Rev enough to find
> >>> the solution.
> >>> Please.............
> >>>
> >>
> >> Have you tried resetting the Standalone Settings and then setting the
> >> password from another stack instead of the standalone settings.
> >>
> >> Also do you have a complex preOpenStack or preOpenCard handlers?
> >> Specially ones that send messages to other objects? If so I have
> >> known this to cause problems that are very difficult to track down.
> >> If this is the case in your application, you could try moving the
> >> code to the openStack/openCard handler.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>> ---- "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> >>>> Colin Holgate wrote:
> >>>>> I just read over the previous messages in this thread (harder to
> >>>>> do than
> >>>>> you would think, if you've already deleted the messages!).
> >>>>> There's one
> >>>>> point of confusion that might be worth asking about. In the  
> >>>>> original
> >>>>> message 'camm' said that the problem only happened when setting a
> >>>>> password in the standalone settings, but then in the next message
> >>>>> corrected that to say the problem only happens in "ANSWER" is
> >>>>> used in
> >>>>> the script.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So which of those two is it? Most of the replies gave advice
> >>>>> based on it
> >>>>> being to do with having a password. It would be very hard to
> >>>>> reproduce
> >>>>> the problem if you are doing the wrong steps.
> >>>>
> >>>> Both. If any script in the stack uses the "answer" command and a
> >>>> password has been set in the standalone builder, on Camm's
> >>>> machines the
> >>>> standalone will fail. What I think may be happening is some sort of
> >>>> conflict that prevents the answer dialog from appearing, but since
> >>>> it is
> >>>> a standalone, the failure is silent.
> >>>>
> >>>> The sample stack he sent to the support queue had some very
> >>>> convoluted
> >>>> script messaging. I wondered if that was the cause and suggested  
> >>>> some
> >>>> simplification techniques, but I didn't hear back about that.
> >>>>
> >>>> At any rate, even with the existing scripts, I was able to build
> >>>> and use
> >>>> his sample standalone normally, even after adding a password to
> >>>> the SB.
> >>>>
> >>>> -- 
> >>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> >>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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