View scripts of my standalone?

[Richmond Mathewson]

  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
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