revOpenDatabase acting differently in IDE and standalone

Björnke von Gierke bvg at mac.com
Thu May 2 16:19:23 EDT 2013


yes, i missed that change. but my other comments still stand :)

On 02.05.2013, at 21:56, stephen barncard wrote:

> I think Mark Wieder stated that script limits are gone now.
> 
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> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Björnke von Gierke <bvg at mac.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> On 02.05.2013, at 00:05, Peter Haworth wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't think so - standalones are the same as any other executables,
>> they
>>> have compiled code in them, not scripts.
>> 
>> Just want to note that this is wrong, and standalones do contain all
>> unencrypted scripts as clear text. They also contain field contents, button
>> names and custom properties (which all remain clear text even with a
>> password).
>> 
>> This is of course because the engine actually reads the scripts every time
>> you run one. Part of this is because you can set the script of an object
>> within a standalone (tho for historical drm reasons you can't just set any
>> script length, see the "scriptLimit" property).
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