News on revIgniter (05-13-10)

[Jim Ault]

On May 13, 2010, at 11:07 AM, stephen barncard wrote:

> I was stuck on this for no apparent reason for a while... nothing  
> working
> until I found a couple of silly gotchas (of no fault of the author)  
> that
> may happen to others that try this.
>
> 1. Cutting and pasting example code from the *revIgniter* example  
> web pages
> appears to choke the Rev server. It turns out that the indenting  
> characters
> on the page are not tabs but  EOT (decimal 4) characters.  (yikes!)
>
> Just replace these characters with tab or empty, or type it out  
> manually.


Just a word of caution...
When copying text and images from browser windows, pop ups, and other  
display objects, always take steps to clean it and test it.  There can  
be many invisible characters that are included in browser codes and  
the operating system clipboard is not able to deal with all  
contingencies.  This is more important when working in non-English  
languages and in uincode.

When copying and pasting into cgi scripts, the rules get a little  
trickier ( than irev scripts )
If you are pasting into the Rev script editor for irev scripts, you  
can see the result immediately.  If you are editing the scripts in a  
text processor such as TextWrangler and uploading directly to the Rev  
server, the scripts can fail when called.


Jim Ault
Las Vegas