View scripts of my standalone?

[Andre Garzia]

Hey Richmond,

DevaWriter is on Apple Home Page:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/home_learning/devawriter.html

Cool! :D

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Richmond Mathewson <
richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 17/03/2010 16:04, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> Kee Nethery wrote:
>>
>> > I have one stack that I deploy as a standalone. Most stacks I deploy
>> > using the updater so the actual thing going out to users is the stack
>> > with the .rev suffix removed. In this case, it's the stack saved as a
>> > standalone.
>> >
>> > I'd like to see what I did in a previous version and I've just
>> > realized that unlike Hypercard where the app and stack get merged
>> > together and you can still go in and read the scripts ... RunRev
>> > seems to not use that mechanism. I don't seem to be able to open
>> > and view my stack in RunRev or even in a text editor now that it's
>> > in a standalone. It's not encrypted or anything. It's just a small
>> > stack converted to standalone.
>>
>> Correct, as of v4.0 and later.  In earlier version you could drop the
>> executable within the OS X bundle onto TextEdit to read the scripts of a
>> non-password-protected standalone, but with v4.0 the way standalones are
>> built has changed - this is from the Engine Change Log included with the Rev
>> install:
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> New features added in 4.0
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Standalone Building
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> The method by which standalone building is done has changed in this
>> release. Standalones are now built in such a way that they behave much
>> better as executable files on all three platforms.
>> ...
>> The new method of standalone building also improves on the previous method
>> by implicitly compressing and masking the main stackfile that is being
>> built. This reduces standalone size, and also makes it harder for
>> individuals to attempt to reverse-engineer a built standalone.
>>
>
> Yup: just tried to open what sits inside the MacOS folder inside one of my
> Devawriter standalones
> with HexEdit - no joy: well, from a selfish point of view this makes me
> rather happy - no nosey-parkers
> getting very far with bits of my stuff I wish to keep private . . .  :)
>
>
>
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>> So with v4.0 and later, with or without a password you'll need to keep a
>> copy of the original source file in order to read scripts.
>>
>> --
>>  Richard Gaskin
>>  Fourth World
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>>
>>
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